C. Sinclair > C.'s Quotes

“CHLOE GET YOUR LESBIAN ASS OUT OF HERE WITH THOSE COLLARBONES”
― Claudia Pantano

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“A surge of hope, that familiar poison, makes my heart stutter.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“We'd debated "Gunshots or fireworks?" almost as frequently as "Mexican or Thai food?”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“But when you're staring down the barrel of turning thirty-eight, you can't afford to take any chances.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“I know I'm not supposed to care about gender, or even acknowledge it as anything more than a social construct, but I really would prefer a girl.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“This, I've gathered, is one of the shitty parts about having children: if your kid makes a best friend, you have to figure out a way to tolerate their parents, no matter how much they suck.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“If I'd learned anything from my parents' fucked-up marriage, it was that making the other person think they're in control when they're really not is often the easiest way to win a fight.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins