Liz’s Reviews > Betty > Status Update

“Sometimes I think the universe is just a glow. The glow of a cigarette in the dark. All the stars, the planets, the galaxies, the infinite edges. It’s all in the small glowin’ tip of a cigarette in the hand of a man leanin’ back against a wall, watchin’ a girl walk by on her way home, knowin’ she’ll never get there.”

“Behind his charcoal strokes you could see…how a night could lose everything in an unbreakable rain.”

OMG CHAPTER 17

“Hissin’ and slitherin’ up and down my body like sin. It’s as if he aint eaten since the Garden of Eden.”

“Eagles fly so high, the tops of their heads touch heaven and turn the feathers white in how holy that touch is.”

“…not only did Dad need us to believe his stories, we needed to believe them as well… what it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.”