Kristin Gore > Quotes

“I had lesser friends who would pretend to be interested in a night of catching up and then morph into giggly backstabbers at the first whiff of Polo Aftershave--woman who were lightning fast with the put-down joke or dismissive wave, whatever it took to seem more pretty or witty or larger chested to the nighly swarm of male barflies.”
― Kristin Gore, Sammy's Hill

“School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.”
― Kristin Gore, Sammy's House

“She flipped through them again, quickly enough that she created a moving picture of her granddaughter’s last few weeks—a cascading waterfall of captured moments.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy

“Life with an unreliable mother had robbed her of the sense of security necessary for upward mobility. It had rendered her anxious and shortsighted.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy

“Bo felt sorry for Jiminy that she had to expend so much effort to ask a simple question. What a difficult way to go through life. He had his challenges, but most of them felt imposed from the outside, not created within.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy

“Her growing certainty that she was withholding some essential part of herself had filled her with quiet desperation.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy

“Jiminy had held vague ambitions of becoming a private eye or a feisty attorney. But these aspirations had taken a backseat to the day-to-day responsibilities of just getting by.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy

“We don’t talk about things like that.” Jiminy stared back, then sneezed powerfully, grateful that her body instinctively rejected such attitudes.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy

“Is that a Polaroid camera?” Bo asked. He was pointing to the camera dangling from her neck. Jiminy had brought it with her from Chicago, to document her decline. She touched it now, and nodded.”
― Kristin Gore, Sweet Jiminy