“Darkness doesn't have fingers that twist into my flesh.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
“That's not what it looked like'
He hangs his ha. "I know what it looked like. I wanted it to look that way.'
'Why?'
'Because I'm an idiot.' he brushes away a teardrop that creeps along his cheek. His eyes meet mine. 'I wanted to show you how you hurt me.'
'When have I hurt you like that? I've never even looked at another guy'
'See? You don't get it. That's why I needed to teach you a lesson.”
― S.M. Parker, quote from The Girl Who Fell
S.M. Parker
Born place: Boston
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“Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from The Lacuna
“You will eat no fried meats,” he began abruptly. “You will eat no pastries, but you will eat plenty of vegetables. You will eat good, substantial, wholesome food—the kind of food your mother makes. You will go to bed at ten o’clock and arise punctually at seven o’clock. You will not smoke or drink or chew. And you will follow this regimen all year round, for as long as you row for me. A man cannot abuse his body for six months and then expect to row the other six months. He must be a total abstainer all year.”
― Daniel James Brown, quote from The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible. It's believing in reality that does us in every time.”
― Richard Flanagan, quote from The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“I don’t want to wind up some old woman who talks to her rabbit,” she said to Rabbit,”
― Ann Patchett, quote from The Magician's Assistant
“It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.”
― David Sedaris, quote from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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