Bryn Greenwood Quotes

Those letters seemed so wonderfully tragic to me. Each one a message he would never get. A note in a bottle, bobbing on the ocean. Lost.

Her rule was "Don't talk to Mama until she talks to you. Wait until you know which Mama she's going to be. If Mama said, "Oh, God, I'm so alone," it was okey for me to hug her. If Mama said, "Worthless motherfucker. I'll show him," you better watch out.

From Alpha Centauri, we were twin stars, side by side.

Girl that age ought not to have so many troubles, but she did. Looking at it that way, them two was about made for each other.

When I reached her, she was a star, pulling me into her orbit

He smelled good. Sweat and motorcycle and wintergreen. No stinking weed smoke. No perfume. No sadness. He smelled like love.

Truth was she took care of him as much as he did her. There was a few times when he was younger that I thought to myself, One of these days, he ain't gonna show up for work, 'cause he'll be at home with a gun in his mouth. I had an uncle did that. Jesse Joe was a man with a deep streak of lonely, until Wavy came along.

I looked at the things people think they own. I didn't take things very often, but I liked to move them. Car keys, purses, glasses, one shoe out of a pair. The

I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again

Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.

I was lying on the tracks under a train I was in love with.

I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too.

I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.

Nothing belongs to you. It didn't matter that Grandma gave the cookbook to me. All Mama had to do was hold it in her hands and it was hers.

Mama."
It made my skin crawl the way she said it. Like you'd say "Tornado," if one was bearing down on you.

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I love you, Wavy. I love you." I said it until she relaxed. "Now put your ring back on.

Odd couple that they were, they had a real connection.

Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.

I could have told him there was no sense in rushing toward being dead. It would find you soon
enough, and before it did there were pleasures to make your heart hurt less. If I lay very still in bed at night, I remembered how Grandma's house smelled. The taste of mint ice cream on Kellen's tongue. Donal jumping on the bed to wake me up.

You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don't know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out.

That night I first saw you, I was going too fast. There I was rubbernecking at you and dumped the bike. Wrecked me up. I don't want to wreck us up like that. I don't want you to get hurt." She

That's not the only thing love means. You just got your mind in the gutter.