Angela Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too. — Angela Johnson

Which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me. — Angela Johnson

Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with. — Angela Johnson

Me and Butchy sit in front of the TV and watch another church fall down in flames. Flames that I can feel sitting a thousand miles away. Flames that I will feel long after the TV is turned off. Flames and the looks on the faces of people watching their churches burn down - burning hot into the night, burning dark when the morning comes up. — Angela Johnson

I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you. — Angela Johnson

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever. — Angela Johnson

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end ... — Angela Johnson

My life is like tofu - it's what gets added that makes it interesting. — Angela Johnson

This is good and hot."
"I remember you used to say that about someone I know."
He shakes his head. "Give it up, Scotts. That boat sailed, sank, and got towed."
"But ... "
"No. It ain't going to happen."
He sits down next to me and I curl up next to him.
"Nicky, it's hard being a child of your divorce and probably the reason somebody is dead."
Nick raises my head with his hands and looks at me and smiles.
"Life bites, baby girl."
" ... and sucks."
Amen. — Angela Johnson

Afterward I always kiss her, my baby, and look into her clear eyes that know everything about me, and want me to be her daddy anyway. — Angela Johnson

The two people I like most - outside my family - have secrets that I don't ask about. Momma says it's a flaw. She says I should be more interested; that people like to be asked about themselves. I should find out what made them who they are. I look at Shoogy and Bobby and think it doesn't matter 'cause the past doesn't always make sense of the present. — Angela Johnson

You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people. — Angela Johnson

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way. — Angela Johnson

I dont want to be anybody's mother. Im not done being a kid myself.Im way to young and so are you — Angela Johnson