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Cathy's Key

Book by Jordan Weisman · 7 quotes · Time, Anger, Artist

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“Ah, Time. Nobody knows better than a portrait artist that time marks us, it nicks us up and leaves us looking used, like a well-traveled suitcase or a favourite book.”

Artist Time Human

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“Time is long, death is patient, and the ghosts will always outlive the grieving.”

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“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.”

Feelings Anger Parents Parents And Children

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“Licking the powder off my fingertips I decided that bravery was overrated. Sometimes sugar is just as good.”

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“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.”

Hands Father Father And Daughter

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“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.”

Paint Palette Omelet

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“To most rich people, money is power." I opened the door and got out of the truck. "That's what's cool about Emma," Pete said. "She's totally into money, but she isn't like that at all. Money isn't power to her." "What is it?" He thought about it for a second, then grinned. "Lego," he said.”

Money Power Lego

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