“I'll teach Amelia Beauregard a thing or two. - Molly”
“You know the Wicked Witch of Tenth Street? - Ananka's mother, to Principal Wickham”
“Who's Thyrza?" Molly asked.
"What? Oh, some World War II femme fatale. Amelia Beauregard's boyfriend ran away with her."
"That was my grandmother's name.”
“You know how to tail people?" I asked.
My mother shrugged and kept her mouth shut, but her devilish smile said everything.”
“If we get lucky, it will grow hair.”
“Because of a streak of dreaminess and a gentle abstraction in his nature, Victor in any queue was always at its very end. He had long since grown used to this handicap, as one grows used to weak sight or a limp.”
“They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.”
“His presence in my waking world stirred all my senses. Still in slow motion, I kept walking, warmed wherever his eyes touched me. When I finally dropped eye contact, the world caught up with me--or the other way around.”
“He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.”
“Un tiro es un segundo. Eso es preferible a irse muriendo de a poquitos, de hambre, de frío, de soledad, de tristeza.”
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