Lindz McLeod > Quotes

“After procuring several fervent assurances that his wife would apologize sincerely and deeply for his absence from Rosings that evening, Mr Collins reluctantly died.”
― Lindz McLeod, The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet

“She does not mind that he remakes her points as if they were his own; conversely, she feels rather important that by producing a baseline, she can encourage him to embellish, to make something bolder and more exuberant. She likes being his foundation, and she is happy to believe she is more of a backstage person.”
― Lindz McLeod, Turducken

“You want to say those words back to your girlfriend, the words she makes a gift of—not showy, or ostentatious, but a gift nonetheless—to make a trophy of your tongue, to hammer gold into curved, melodic notes and spread them on the floor like stepping stones into your chest. You can’t, not yet. But you will.”
― Lindz McLeod, Turducken

“Therapy, peeling back years of repression, unwinding your skin like a mottled orange; compartmentalization is grainy-sweet, tempting in the same way as taking the first bite of someone else’s birthday cake—you shouldn’t, but god, wouldn’t it taste so fucking good to bite into a fresh landscape?”
― Lindz McLeod, Turducken