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Cathy's Key
Jordan Weisman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He was what she had always needed her father to be.”
“The whole point of love is that it happens now. Here. Between daybreak and nightfall.”
“The hands were beautiful, deft and wise: hands for steadying a bicycle, for pouring milk into a cereal bowl, hands for putting on Band-Aids and ruffling your hair.”
“Still life." What a lie. Life isn't still. Death is.”
“My mom is a black-no-sugar woman, but I basically believe in turning my coffee into cheesecake.”
“My anger turned small and hid. It was like that kid feeling you get when you are sad or hurt or lonely and you scream or cry to your parents and they crush you with their grown up feelings. Rage as big as the sky. Loneliness like an ocean you could drown in. Huge grown up feelings that annihilate you where you stand.”
“Licking the powder off my fingertips I decided that bravery was overrated. Sometimes sugar is just as good.”
“It was just past midnight and I was trudging through the St. Louis Greyhound station, a grim building obviously brought to you by the people who design high school bathrooms.”
“I thought about what an intensely human act it was to get a tattoo, taking an image or a slogan, some stray momentary emotion, and cutting it into your body so that it could never heal and never be erased.”
“He said that mixing an omelet was a lot like mixing paint: the eggs were my basic palette, and then I could build tastes out of whatever ingredients I had around.”
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