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“I looked at his eyes. I was thinking: they are bluer than the sea.
But then the sea is not blue at all, is it?”
― If I Told You Once
But then the sea is not blue at all, is it?”
― If I Told You Once
“You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did.
When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look.
Now I blended in.”
― If I Told You Once
When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look.
Now I blended in.”
― If I Told You Once
“He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“The women of my family seem to be the ones concerned with lineage; the men are at most ghostly presences. We have a tendency to disappear or fade away while our women cling on tenaciously.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“The strange baby sucks at her, eating her up. That’s not yours, she wants to tell him. It’s on loan, it belongs to someone else. When he comes back, you’ll have to repay the debt somehow.”
― Nice Big American Baby
― Nice Big American Baby
“Now that she's going to drive out the English and crown Charles VII, who's going to look after the cows?”
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