Kelly Luce > Quotes

“I swear, kids don’t grow a little every day. They save it up. One morning you wake up to a brand-new, much older kid.”
― Kelly Luce, Pull Me Under: A Novel

“I must come to my point: I would very much like to meet you. As a widower of two years, I have found the companionship available to me (my tomcat and my memories) to be inadequate. The cat is unreliable and cantankerous, the memories often the same.

It may be true that regardless of a man's age, there remains inside him a kernel of youth. As I have aged, my curiosity has not lessened, but has migrated from my brain to my heart. It is not such a bad thing.

(from the story Amorometer)”
― Kelly Luce, Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail

“He didn't need the money. He lived alone and drew a modest pension and lived simply, in a small wooden house built so long ago it contained just one electrical outlet. Into the top socket was plugged his half-size refrigerator; the bottom socket sat empty. A tiny red spider sometimes appeared there, which Nao thought lucky. Nao owned a small TV and enjoyed certain weekly dramas enough to pay the NHK subscription fee, but rather than use the vacant socket to power the TV, he unplugged the refrigerator. Nao belived in spiders' rights. He also believed that life offered answers to those who stood still enough to hear them.

(from the story Wisher)”
― Kelly Luce, Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail

“A sharp, crunching sound pulled his eyes to one side, where they fell on the wet-haired boy. The child looked away quite obviously -- he had been watching him. To be observed so closely by a child felt a great honor.

(from the story Wisher)”
― Kelly Luce, Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail

“Grieving and healing go hand-in-hand. Cut yourself a wide swath. Things will get better”
― Kelly Luce, Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail

“On a cloudless afternoon in the peaceful Shikoku city of Tokushima, twelve-year-old Chizuru Akitani, Japanese-American daughter of acclaimed violinist and Living National Treasure Hiro Akitani, walked into the staff room at Motomachi Elementary, covered with blood and clutching a letter opener. Panic swept the room, as people assumed the sixth grader, known for her introspective nature, had seriously hurt herself. The English teacher, Ms. Daniela Townshend, was the first to approach Chi-zuru. As she neared, the girl raised her palm and stilled the room with five words:

"This is not my blood.”
― Kelly Luce, Pull Me Under

“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.”
― Kelly Luce, Amorometer

“It may be true that regardless of a man’s age, there remains inside him a kernel of youth. As I have aged, my curiosity has not lessened, but has migrated from my brain to my heart. It is not such a bad thing”
― Kelly Luce, Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail