31 quotes found
“I live in an ocean of smell”
“I live in an ocean of smell…”
“Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.”
“How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?”
“The very air they breathed was almost a juice.”
“But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs.”
“At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be b...”
“Its life. You dont figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
“the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”
“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boatslet you know if youre off course. But it aint always possible”
“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”
“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Lik...”
“When the Deep Purple falls,Over sleepy garden walls, And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,Thru the mist of a memoryYou wander back to me,Breathing my name with a sigh.In the still of the night...”
“These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go...”
“...you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number.”
“Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms.”
“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
“As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or C...”
“Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...”
“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.”
“...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.”
“What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?”
