“His polish-black hair was so silky that my first impulse was to stroke it. That's what beauty does to us. Our first thought is that of the child. Touch it. Make it mine. But the child grows up and learns what happens when you reach for those bright balloons bursting with colour.”
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“What is it about tipping their head sideways that makes them think their brain will work better?”
“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
“Like the sun and the moon I loved her. Saint Avery. Until death and beyond.”