Tiffany

“Scott Fitzgerald:
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“No way of knowing how language re-created a family. His own children didn't want to learn Spanish, when he had given everything to learn English.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“How come,’ Big Angel said, ‘we never kissed?’
‘Kissed?’
‘Don’t families kiss?’
‘Like, brothers? Kissing?’
‘Why not?’
They pondered the new possibility.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“For the first time I understood that I had driven Emily Warshaw from my life.
This was something I'd been trying to do for a long time--not intentionally, I swear, nor with any feeling of satisfaction, but in the automatic, methodical manner of a boy working on a loose tooth. Without reference to doppelgangers and the symptoms of the midnight disease it's hard to say why, exactly; but certainly a native genius for externalizing self-hatred may have had something to do with it. Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys