“ROMEO: Here’s the thing: when you back a wounded dog into a corner, it’s going to come out fighting.”
“Romeo: You couldn’t put a price on piece of mind.”
“Rimmel: I finally accepted the fact I was really struggling today, and with that acceptance, it became a little easier to breathe.”
“Romeo: You know what pisses me off?
When good days are ruined by bad s*t.”
“ROMEO: If there was one thing I’d learned over the past few years, it was life wasn’t easy. In fact, at times, it was f*cking brutal. Family was supposed to be the exception. Family was supposed to make life easier. It wasn’t always that way.
Guess that’s why the six of us formed our own family. A family by choice and out of loyalty.”
“ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.
Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat’s *ss? H*lls no.”
“VALERIE: .....It isn’t your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen.”
“Life wasn't just any one thing. It was a combination... a melting pot of emotions, a mix of salty and sweet.”
“I smiled into his lips, and he continued to kiss me. "Your smile is my favorite flavor," he said, pulling away slightly.”
“The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice.”
“My brain was the internet, and I had one thousand tabs open all the time.”
“He still did it. He still looked at me like I was all he saw, like I was the sun and the moon all wrapped up into one.”
“You may be half the size of my son, but your strength matches his.”
“I was stronger. Not healed. I would never be "healed." I didn't think there was such a thing for a person who'd lost a child. It was simply learning to live incomplete.”
“Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears.”
“That's right. Your husband. I belong to you, Rim. Always. I don't want anyone but you. I haven't since the day you spilled pencils everywhere, in your lesbian sweater, and gave me a list of rules.”
“Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.”
“She was a collector of lost souls. The forgotten, the bypassed, the most beautiful at heart. Rimmel saw beauty no one else saw, and even though how she made others feel was amazing, it was nothing compared to the way it made her shine.”
“You don't touch the purse. The purse is sacrosanct.”
“My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.”
“I bow to the Captain—I think a curtsy would be a bit out of place here—and recite, in French, the little speech I had made up for these occasions to try to tone down my growing reputation as a bloodthirsty pirate. “I am Jacky La Faber. Perhaps you have heard of me. I am a privateer who takes ships and their cargoes, but I neither harm nor rob the crews or the passengers of the ships I seize, no matter what you may have heard. You and your men will be put in one of your lifeboats and allowed to return to France.”
“Let us pray,” said Doña Guadalupe, and they all knelt down. And as they prayed and Lupe saw the eastern sky growing yellow and rose and pink, she felt herself fill with such power, with such a strength and well-being, that she just knew in her bones that life was eternal. Her eyes filled with tears, she felt so close to these women. The whole world sang and danced before her very eyes as the cycle of life continued and the new day came forth in all its wondrous beauty—a gift from God.”
“That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.”
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