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“If I had the knackI'd sing likeCherry flakes falling”
“Open your eyes, baby. Look at me.” He pressed his forehead down to meet mine, my eyelids fluttering open at his command. “Look at me and tell me you don’t want it.”I peered up at him with unsteady ...”
“The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.”
“If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.”
“…you know how hard it is to be utterly, drop dead gorgeous," she said, twirling that shiny instrument of torture she liked to call her hair.”
“America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man”
“Good.” He grinned.“I was kind of worried you’d say no. It’s like so against the rules it’s not even funny.”I smiled. “Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you’ve demonstrated a deplorable lack of res...”
“A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.”
“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.”
“Love does not blind and it can't”
“Serpentining" means trying to control a situation, backing out of it, pretending it's not happening, or maybe even pretending that you don't care. We use it to dodge conflict, discomfort, possible ...”
“Following your heart is the best decision you will ever make".”
“You’ve got this job offer in Charlotte. I know. But if you want, that’s something we can figure out together. I made a commitment to Cameron, so I need to stay in Chicago until she’s back from mate...”
“There’s nothing you have to be, do, or get in order to find bliss. Just slow down, listen, and remember.”
“I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meado...”
“The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)”
“Remember the unremembered”
“Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”
“Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?”
“Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.”
