“But what first motivated me wasn’t anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.”

“In buoying me up, reading also cast me down, made me see what was possible, what I had missed.”

“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”

“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”

“I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out”

“I tried to be
what you wanted me to be
But you didn't want a girl you wanted
MACHINE …
I can't be part of this machine
I got too much heart to keep it in
I can't be part of your machine
I promise this is not the end”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“Everything was plugged in and should’ve been working, but it gave me a communication error. I got like a cave man and got so mad at it. I was completely fed up. I’m not an engineer, I’m not a computer whiz. I don’t know anything about electronics. All I know is that I want this thing to make noise, I want to write music, and it’s not working.”

“I read like the flame reads the wood.”

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”