“But I can’t leave, not yet. I’ll stay with her until sunrise. If I brace my feet, I won’t slide. I can rest my cheek on the roof tile and still see her. Pacing. Pulling her hair.
“I’ll fix you,” I tell her. “I promise.”
Even though I don’t know how.
It’s better than good-bye.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“It’s disgusting. They melted my girl down and poured her into their mold. And this perversion is what she cooled into. I can’t be near her. Can’t see her, smell her, hear her voice chirping like a bird.
I tell her the same thing I’ve been whispering every night on the roof. “I’m sorry. It’s my fault.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.
[Oscar Banks]”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“she drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper.
Nobody sees the real me.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“Yo hago lo que quiero.
No. Solo haces lo que cabrea a tus padres. Quizás deberías hacer lo que quieres sin que te importe si a tus padres les guste o no.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“We don’t talk; it’s family night, not miracle night.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“Cookie!" The kid holds up a carrot with the feathery green still attached to the top.
"Seriously?"
The woman gives me a wide-eyed don't say anything look and walks away fast.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“You have points on the tip of your ears." she tilts her head and stares at me." like a big, tall elf.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“¿A quién debería de odiar más? ¿Al que lo pide? ¿O al que se lo da?”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“Es lo que quieres que sea. Esa es la razón por la que me gusta el arte. Nadie se confunde.”
― Pam Bachorz, quote from Candor
“Nothing had anything to do with me. I was locked up inside myself and evicted from myself. I didn’t belong to them and I was missing me.”
― Herta Müller, quote from Atemschaukel
“What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“It always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.”
― Emily Bleeker, quote from When I'm Gone
“Quigley and Matthews took their investigation in Lake County beyond law enforcement personnel and established witnesses to civic officials, politicians, prominent businessmen, and grove owners in this largely rural area of central Florida with a population of thirty-six thousand. What they discovered was a county controlled not by politics, money, the citrus industry, or the law, but by an embittered contingent of the Ku Klux Klan intent upon codifying a racial caste system, through violent means if necessary, that would effectively deny blacks access to political influence, economic opportunity, and social justice.”
― Gilbert King, quote from Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
“I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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