“At her age it was probably unusual, or even worrying, to be thinking about her parents so often. It was a void, an absence, a source of regret, and she was not sure she wanted to fill that emptiness. Their conversation had been interrupted before they ran out of things to say. And because she hadn't become a mother herself, perhaps she'd remained a daughter more than anything.”
― Kids Run the Show: The new novel from the author of No and Me
― Kids Run the Show: The new novel from the author of No and Me
“Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and bricks of it. Just with the person we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t.”
― The Deal of a Lifetime
― The Deal of a Lifetime
“What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“It’s bloody awful to admit to yourself that you’re not the kind of person you’ve always thought you were.”
― The Deal of a Lifetime
― The Deal of a Lifetime
“What was there to aspire to once wealth, fame, and power had been eliminated? Was the goal of survival further survival and nothing more?”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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