“I have so little. To a beggar, even scraps become a feast.”
“The son of a cripple might be a cripple, but the son of tigers won’t be a dog.”
“Only storms turn fish into dragons,”
“The very idea beggared his imagination, but that only meant his imagination was too limited.”
“When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. ”
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
“Josh pulls me aside.
"Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling over the words a little. Like he's hesitant to say them, now i wish he'd hug me again. And then kiss me.
But he doesn't. He just waves and walks off.
I sigh.
"Hannah, I just... I want you to know if I pause alot when I tell you how special you are I want you to think that I'm... very... very... deep," Finn says”
“He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.”
“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”
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