“. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“...a much younger woman, one of those round-faced, tiny-featured women who were touted as beauties though they were not in fact particularly beautiful. They were simply the daughters of wealthy families powerful enough to demand that the concept of beauty be expanded to include them.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
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“Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
“Away, with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle, from the town, burrowing among the dwellings of men and making the streets hum, flashing out into the meadows for a moment, mining in through the damp earth, booming on in darkness and heavy air, bursting out again into the sunny day so bright and wide; away, with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle, through the fields, through the woods, through the corn, through the hay, through the chalk, through the mould, through the clay, through the rock, among objects close at hand and almost in the grasp, ever flying from the traveller, and a deceitful distance ever moving slowly with him: like as in the track of the remorseless monster, Death!”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Dombey and Son
“You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.”
― Elias Canetti, quote from Auto-da-Fé
“It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
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