Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers

Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers

"A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the rat race of city life. The city, even on the west coast, has the power to beat us down, to suck us of passion, to crush our dreams."
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"A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the rat race of city life. The city, even on the west coast, has the power to beat us down, to suck us of passion, to crush our dreams."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"In a way, we’re all addicts by nature."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink or try to focus on anything. Nothing can keep up to it, not the other cars, not my body, not anyone else in the bar. It’s a rush, pure exhilaration, and I’m having the time of my life. But instead of driving, I’m in the passenger seat, along for the ride, watching myself race around the track from my barstool."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you’re not even thinking. Like they’ve been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a place where we can freeze our former selves, thaw, and then bloom anew. Here it’s just you, the land, and your thoughts, and you can't leave until you've wrestled with yourself and emerged a survivor. But then again, the light is much more intense up here and everything looks different because of it. The sun hasn’t set in a couple of months, and you can see things much more clearly when it is light all of the time."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can’t erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"It is not the darkness of shadows: one that follows you, haunts you, terrifies you. Instead, it consumes you, becomes you, weighs you down. It IS you. It is comforting. Familiar. I have walked with it. Eaten with it. Loved with it. Smiled with it. Yet I feel it destroying me. Like cancer. But I can’t remove it. It stays inside of me, taunting me to kill it, myself, but it does not realize that this seduction keeps me alive."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare I’m living. When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see nothing and nothing matters and no one cares. There’s no one to hurt or disappoint or notice when I’m low and I don’t need to face anyone not anyone in the world or not even myself."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren’t there."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"When you’re in the wild, there’s nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. You’re just alone with yourself. You look around and lose yourself in the mountains, rivers, forests or tundra, but you can see nothing except for the chaos in your own mind. It is fucking terrifying and peaceful at the same time."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Maybe the truth doesn’t exist if you look the other way."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
"Sometimes our heroes let us down."
Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
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