Melissa Petreshock · 224 pages
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“I’d say Hades will convert the Underworld into an ice skating rink before the king has a personality makeover.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“Cait’s lips are on mine, hard, insistent, hands fisting my hair, and she’s taking control, grinding her body to mine, finding ways to pleasure herself with my body. I am a willing slave to her desires, no intention of fighting her punishment for my resistance in accepting her love.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“Wealth means nothing if you believe such a life affords you the right to pity, Caitie. It affords us great responsibility.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“Pretty packaging doesn’t make a bad gift any better.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“Bunny rabbits may not look like New York City sewer rats, but they’re still rodents.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“There are times, Cait, we must do what we do not like. Complaints are for the weak-willed. True strength prevails regardless the situation.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
Melissa Petreshock
Born place: in Lexington, KY, The United States
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“We get in and I start the car. “Are you going to be good to Lani?” I ask. I think of Tommy Cook, a pale boy with psoriasis; we used to tie him to a chair with bungee cords and put him in the middle of the road, then hide. Few cars would actually come down Rainbow Drive, but when they did, it always surprised me that the drivers would slow their vehicles and swerve around the chair. None of them ever got out of their cars to help Tommy; it was as though they were in on the prank. I don’t know how Tommy managed to let us catch him more than once. Maybe he liked the attention.
“I’ll try,” Scottie says. “But it’s hard. She has this face that you just want to hit.”
“I know what you mean,” I say, thinking of Tommy, but realize I’m not supposed to empathize. “What does that mean?” I ask. “The kind of face that you want to hit. Where did you get that?” Sometimes I wonder if Scottie knows what she’s saying or if it’s something she recites, like those kids who memorize the Declaration of Independence.
“It’s something Mom said about Danielle.”
“I see.” Joanie has carried her juvenile meanness into her adult life. She sends unflattering pictures of her ex-friends to the Advertiser to put in their society pages. She always has some sort of drama in her life, some friend I’m not supposed to speak to or invite to our barbecues, and then I hear her on the phone gossiping about the latest scandal in an outraged and thrilled voice. “You are going to die,” I’ll hear her say. “Oh my God, you will just die.”
Is this where Scottie gets it? By watching her mother use cruelty as a source of entertainment? I feel almost proud that I have made these deductions without the blogs and without Esther, and I’m eager to tell Joanie about all of this, to prove that I was capable without her.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, quote from The Descendants
“La gente non legge pensando all'arte: legge pensando alle persone. E le giudica per quello che sono. E come credi che giudicherà i personaggi del tuo racconto? A quali conclusioni credi che arriverà? Ci hai pensato?”
― Philip Roth, quote from The Ghost Writer
“It is true that we choose our life, but it’s also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.”
― Jamie Magee, quote from Insight
“Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, quote from Tiger Lily
“transportaban en un solo viaje de ocho a doce toneladas con la complicidad de la policía, el ministerio de Defensa y la propia presidencia del Gobierno mejicano. Eran los tiempos felices de Carlos Salinas de Gortari, con los narcos traficando a la sombra de Los Pinos;”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, quote from La reina del sur
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