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The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

Monica Drake
Soulmate, Buddhist, Heart
Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.57, Hawthorne Books

To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

Monica Drake
Dream, Memories, Party

In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.

Monica Drake
Suicide, Baby, Heart
Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.65, Hawthorne Books

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

Monica Drake
Art, Life Sucks
Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.131, Hawthorne Books

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

Monica Drake
Wasted Time, Values
Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.228, Hawthorne Books

In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

Monica Drake
Suicide, Skins, Pulse
Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.47, Hawthorne Books

When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.

Monica Drake
Anxiety, Soul, Agitation
Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.40, Hawthorne Books

Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

Monica Drake
Jesus, Lambs, Lasts
Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books

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