Belle Vie was a cipher, really, a place in whose beauty one might find pleasure or pain, leisure or labor. People saw, in its iced columns, in the magnolias and aged oaks, what they wanted to see, what their own history told them to.
“Understand the humanity within yourself, while understanding the divinity within others.”
― The Beauty of Different: Observations of a Confident Misfit
― The Beauty of Different: Observations of a Confident Misfit
“Oh my Lord, there was his precious laminator, which Troy got him last Christmas, thus beginning Stan’s obsession with laminating anything he could find: instructions for using the TV remote (admittedly helpful), the article in the local paper about the sale of Delaneys, inspiring sporting quotes he printed out from the internet and wanted to remember. He’d laminate Joy if he got the chance.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
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