17 quotes found
“If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.”
“It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.”
“Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.”
“I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.”
“I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live”
“I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on." ,”
“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, th...”
“The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.”
“She is so white-hot furious she can barely see. She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage i...”
“She has never tried to find out what happened to her family her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian has come back ...”
“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud."It cer...”
“Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected...”
“He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.”
“Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that shes come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.”
“It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.”
“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud."It ce...”
“She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian has come back...”
