“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.”
“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.”
“In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.
[Oscar Banks]”
“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.”
“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.”
“We don’t talk; it’s family night, not miracle night.”
“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.”
“You have points on the tip of your ears." she tilts her head and stares at me." like a big, tall elf.”
“¿A quién debería de odiar más? ¿Al que lo pide? ¿O al que se lo da?”
“Es lo que quieres que sea. Esa es la razón por la que me gusta el arte. Nadie se confunde.”
“I feel like I've been swept up and dropped on my head in a world that looks like mine but is slightly different. Brighter, more vibrant — or at least missing some of the dust and grime that's collected over our lives after years of neglect. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.”
“He was the soul of politeness, my husband.”
“I always knew you'd try this Viking shit on me.”
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”
“This isn’t a fucking fairy tale. I’m not going to turn into a good guy because her cunt is made of velvet and rainbows.”
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