Greg Bottoms > Quotes

“The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel through time, reappear days or months or years after its actually occurrence. Every second of our existence is alive with possibility, but we don’t see it until we hit rewind, until we freeze the frame. It is sad that so many things, all suffused with meaning, escape the unaided eye. ”
― Greg Bottoms, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories from the New South

“To express love openly is to leave yourself open to injury,”
― Greg Bottoms, Angel Head A memoir

“He was embarrassed by his feelings. He had grown up in a home without love, filled with petty cruelties and alcoholism and despair, a place where dreams of a better life were absurd and worthy of venomous critique from his own father.”
― Greg Bottoms, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

“He had grown up in a home without love, filled with petty cruelties and alcoholism and despair, a place where dreams of a better life were absurd and worthy of venomous critique from his own father.”
― Greg Bottoms, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

“To express love openly is to leave yourself open to injury, which he could not take, not even slightly”
― Greg Bottoms, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness