“If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“When I first saw the sand, I thought it was beautiful. Like maybe it'd be fun to just roll around in and make sand angels. Now I know the truth, that sand is actually the love child of proud parents Marie Antoinette and Joseph Stalin.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“When the sun begins to set, we do exactly as we did the night before. Caroline fusses over Dink. Jaxon ogles Harper. The boys gather desert debris for our beds. Guy watches me undress. I imagine our wedding.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“But there’s often more truth found when we sleep than when we wake. Dad used to always say that.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“Oh Jesus. I’m already talking to myself. Or thinking to myself as if there are two of me. Is that the same thing? I’m not sure. But I do know I’ve been alone for two minutes and I’m already losing my shit.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“Something is definitely up.
That or my family is auditioning for a remake of The Shining.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“So ...” Jaxon says. “Did that elephant just spit up water and we all drank it?”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“The cheetah. Ate. My finger.” The girl looks at each of us.“That’s what you’re telling me? That Jaxon’s Pandora ate the pinkie from my right hand? My writing hand?”
“To be fair, he won it from M-4.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“He holds up two fingers - his pointer and middle - places them under his eyes, and then points in front of us.”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
“Ik ben in een oerwoud. Ik ben in dit stomme oerwoud. Met een magische wasbeer " - Ransom”
― Victoria Scott, quote from Fire & Flood
Victoria Scott
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“I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation
“The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.”
― Roland Barthes, quote from Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
“Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.”
― Confucius, quote from The Analects
“I'll take a donut over a man any day of the week.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Plum Lucky
“Grow up and you turn into burglars and get shot, or worse, they make you wear a coat and tie and stash you in the First National Bank behind brass bars! We gotta stand still! Stay the age we are. Grow up? Hah! All you do then is marry someone who screams at you!”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from Farewell Summer
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