Scott Heim quotes

“The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.”
-- Scott Heim

Source : Scott Heim (2008). “We Disappear: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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“It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.”
-- Scott Heim

Source : Scott Heim (1995). “Mysterious skin: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

#Angel Quotes #White Quotes #Light Quotes

“He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.”
-- Scott Heim

Source : Scott Heim (1995). “Mysterious skin: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

#Cobwebs Quotes #Spokes Quotes

“I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.”
-- Scott Heim

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“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”

“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”

“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”

“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”

“I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.”

“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”

“If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.”

“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

Source : "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.

“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”