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Just Like Home

Book by Sarah Gailey · 6 quotes · Hate, Love, Bars

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“He was going to be relentless. She could tell. This was a kid who prided himself on remembering customers, who would want to make conversation, who probably thought of himself as a charmer, who probably thought that he got tips because of his personality and not because his customers were scared to be assholes. Sure enough, he put a glass of water in front of her and leaned his elbows against the bar as if they were both people.”

Humanity Solitude Bars

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“Vera doesn't move, not a single muscle. This is the side of her mother she so rarely gets to see, the side she so deeply longs for. There is the most softness and allowance here that Vera ever gets to see. This kindness, this interest. Vera wants to lean toward it like a flower turning toward sunlight. She wants to eat it.”

Mother Longing Horro

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“Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world”

Childhood Control

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“The wet slapping noise comes again, followed by a thick gurgling gasp. Vera squeezes her eyes shut so tight that they ache and she grips her quit hard, and she decides that the time has come to be as brave as she can, because if she isn't brave it will get her.”

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“I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick, true, smothering hate we have for those we know best.”

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“Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them.”

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