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“I have been inside for eleven years, same as Raoul. Why should we leave our safe houses now? What would be gained?”
― Safe Houses
― Safe Houses
“She was wearing a red dress whose straps were as thin as the sugar piping on honeycake valentines and her back was bare and covered with star-shaped freckles. I should have liked to sleep under such a blanket of stars.”
― Safe Houses
― Safe Houses
“At fifty most women are old bags, used up and wrinkled, ready for the garbage can. But as I have been kind to the years, the years have been kind to me; I too know how to make a deal. I don't claim prettiness. Mine is a mature face, a face which tells a story. Many stories. It is a face which survives to tell.”
― Safe Houses
― Safe Houses
“The future is a skinny chicken slaughtered in the kosher style.”
― Safe Houses
― Safe Houses
“Life is a hole, that's my philosophy. One step forward and boom, up to the armpits. You grab a tree, somebody stretches out a helping hand, a ladder, a rope- somehow you find a way out. But you begin to notice they're all around, these curious holes, you can't dance around them forever. Eventually you drop your guard and fall in again, and then you see how easy it is to climb out!”
― Safe Houses
― Safe Houses
