We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.
A small profit it better than a big loss
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, and she hadn’t, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she ...
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember which side her father had parted his hair on, an...
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm...
Nothing is but what is now
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure i...
You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage" - Serena
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly.
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
