22 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?”
“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...”
“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...”
“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.”
“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?”
“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.”
“Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.”
“She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their...”
“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…”
