April Genevieve Tucholke · 320 pages
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“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“Your life is not your own, Vi,' she said. 'Don't you know that? It belongs to the people who love you. So you need to take better care of it.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn't be both.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“I loved him. God help me, I loved him more than a girl has ever loved a boy. More than anyone has ever loved anyone.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“They saw even more ungodly things—the first zipper; the first-ever all-electric kitchen, which included an automatic dishwasher; and a box purporting to contain everything a cook would need to make pancakes, under the brand name Aunt Jemima’s. They sampled a new, oddly flavored gum called Juicy Fruit, and caramel-coated popcorn called Cracker Jack. A new cereal, Shredded Wheat, seemed unlikely to succeed—“shredded doormat,” some called it—but a new beer did well, winning the exposition’s top beer award. Forever afterward, its brewer called it Pabst Blue Ribbon.”
― Erik Larson, quote from The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Pearl
“the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Harry Potter Boxset
“... a full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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