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“I imagine what life would look like if I stayed here in this trailer with Dad. I can't think of him alone. I'm scared that somehow he might wilt away without Hattie or me here. But if I stay, I might just wilt away, too.”
― Ramona Blue
― Ramona Blue
“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Because just like out in Agnes's backyard and in Adam's movie room, the world is dark and it's hard to remember that we exist outside of this moment.”
― Ramona Blue
― Ramona Blue
“Ever since he returned from the war, he'd felt as if part of him were still back in China, but he wasn't there anymore. Those army hospitals had long been dismantled; those boys he treated had returned to their homes- or at least they were beyond suffering. And here he was now: in this gaily colored and dramatically lit nightclub in America, sitting across from his American wife. The music was loud and brash; the smell of perfume and cigarettes lay heavy on the air. He lifted his mai tai to his lips and took another sip of his drink, the condensation dripping down the side of his hand like an electric shock.
Wake up. You are here.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Wake up. You are here.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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