Denis Johnson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

  Denis Johnson

  Lying, Giving, Bars

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.25, Macmillan

• She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

  Denis Johnson

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.84, Macmillan

• When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

  Denis Johnson

  Mother, Hurt, Jesus

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.84, Macmillan

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