Kate Rounds > Quotes

“She’d caught me watching. She winked and let the word honey escape on a contrail of booze and smoke. She was like weather coming in a window. Winter air clung to her coat … I hid my face in its magenta wool, bleeding as the zipper cut my cheek.”
― Kate Rounds, Catboat Road

“I’d watched women in dressing rooms, hips like curio shelves, fashion falling from their bones. This woman dared clothes to protect her.”
― Kate Rounds, Catboat Road

“I wanted to experience her like a normal person, like a guy, drunk on summer skirts, jacket hooked on one finger, tie blowing over one shoulder, glancing sideways like men do before ducking into cars.”
― Kate Rounds, Catboat Road

“… It was the safest place to be … on Catboat Road and on Scrimshaw Street with shopkeepers hosing their little sections of sidewalk and goring everyone with small talk while the Frigate exposed our broken bonds.”
― Kate Rounds, Catboat Road