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“It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
― Out of the Easy
― Out of the Easy
“I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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