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“I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company of people. Animals are honest—there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.”
― The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
― The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
“I wonder,” Steve said wildly, “why somebody hasn’t taken a rifle and blown your head off.”
"Even the most primitive societies have an innate respect for the insane," the Motorcycle Boy answered.”
― Rumble Fish
"Even the most primitive societies have an innate respect for the insane," the Motorcycle Boy answered.”
― Rumble Fish
“Blind terror in a fight can easily pass for courage.”
― Rumble Fish
― Rumble Fish
“The children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.”
― Jazz
― Jazz
“Mind what's left to you."
"You saying take it? Don't fight?"
Alice put down her iron, hard. "Fight what, who? Some mishandled child who saw her parents burn up? Who knew better than you or me or anybody just how small and quick this little bitty life is? Or maybe you want to stomp somebody with three kids and one pair of shoes. Somebody in a raggedy dress, the hem dragging in the mud. Somebody wanting arms just like you do and you want to go over there and hold her but her dress is muddy at the hem and the people standing around wouldn't understand how could anybody's eyes go so flat, how could they? Nobody's asking you to take it. I'm sayin make it, make it!”
― Jazz
"You saying take it? Don't fight?"
Alice put down her iron, hard. "Fight what, who? Some mishandled child who saw her parents burn up? Who knew better than you or me or anybody just how small and quick this little bitty life is? Or maybe you want to stomp somebody with three kids and one pair of shoes. Somebody in a raggedy dress, the hem dragging in the mud. Somebody wanting arms just like you do and you want to go over there and hold her but her dress is muddy at the hem and the people standing around wouldn't understand how could anybody's eyes go so flat, how could they? Nobody's asking you to take it. I'm sayin make it, make it!”
― Jazz
Elena’s 2025 Year in Books
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