It isn’t too smart for a girl to be smart, her mom had always said. So she just made herself very, very small.
“In a world of flowers grown in pots, I'd like you girls to thrive in the wild.”
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“Catholics are pretty good at keeping Jesus nailed to that cross, rather than focusing more on that happy bit where he rose from the dead and freed us from sin and evil.”
― The Smell of Other People's Houses
― The Smell of Other People's Houses
“It's still there- my own heart, cobbled together and a little worse for wear- but it's definitely not all beat out.”
― The Smell of Other People's Houses
― The Smell of Other People's Houses
“If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn't a good deed, it's a self-serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you're fishing for others to do the same.”
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