Everything Inside Quotes
"A la vie," Mona said, toasting her father. "To life."
"You need my kidney," she said. "Why don’t you accept it?"
"There are many falls before the big one," he said.
"You can and you will," he said. "You have your life, and I have what's left of mine. I don’t want you to have any regrets."
"I am trained to help people, but for these two, I’d pound both their heads with a big rock until their brains were liquid, like this drink now in my hand."
"The more money they have, the greedier they are."
"This one room was suddenly her everything. It was her entire world."
"I wish I’d met you first," he said. "I wish I’d seen you first. I wish I’d known you first. I wish I’d loved you first."
"Only people you care about can hurt you like he did us."
"Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go."
"Some people just want to go home, no matter what the cost."
"There are happy marriages, the kinds that are truly happy, where the people love each other very much and seem to be great friends."
"Big or small, she did not want to hear any more, but she didn’t stop him."
"I wasn’t sure," he said. "Can I tell you something else?"
"As long as you’re breathing you can be hurt."
"You're a mother who can provide not only for your own child but mine, too."
"We did everything we would have done for Wesley."
"I'm not exactly thinking about being happy right now."
"Pou sa n pa wè yo. For those we don't see. For those who are not here."
"You hold some responsibility for all of this. Can you please go to that place and talk to my daughter about returning to school? She is not answering my calls."
"I kept that picture on my desk so I would always think about my parents when I sat down to do my work."
"Unlike most of our floor mates, we didn’t have a small refrigerator or microwave in our room. Neah was vehemently anticlutter, and I was used to keeping only as many belongings as I could quickly pack up and take with me."
"My dream was always to have a stable home and to stay in one place."
"Me coming to work in the fields with them would be like them washing their hands and drying them in the dirt."
"Every night after work, my father would check my homework, which he pretended to understand even when he didn’t."
"Academics’ kids are migrants of a different kind."
"My parents would call my saying this redundant, but, Luce, there’s so much suffering in the world."
"Motherhood is a kind of foggy bubble she can’t step out of long enough to wrap her arms around her child."
"Sometimes you just have to shake the devil off you, whatever that devil is."
"It’s about not being up to the task; the job is too grand, too permanent, even with her husband’s help."
"Something that was supposed to kick in, maybe a light that was meant to turn on in her head, never did."
"Despite her complete physical transformation, at times she feels as though she has not given birth at all."
"I married my wife not just for her beauty but also for her strong mind."
"She is a citizen of this country with the same rights as every other citizen to speak as freely as she wishes."
"You are always saying hello to them while preparing them to say goodbye to you."
"You are always dreading the separations, while cheering them on, to get bigger, smarter, to crawl, babble, walk, speak."
"Human beings have been migrating since the beginning of time."
"We start this New Year anticipating the future we are creating for generations to come."
"I only got a few hours of sleep before it was time to go on the children’s hospital visit."
"Frankly, there’s no way you can see the real country with us," Callie said.
"I would still be a voyeur, but at least I’d be out of their bubble for a few hours."
"I know it’s crazy," Callie said, "but I spent years and years wishing we’d all died together that day, Mum, him, and me."
"My mum suffered a lot because of me," she added. "That’s why I’m not having any kids."
"I wanted to be her angel and give Callie all my ribbons."
"Out of the chaos of life, the archbishop said, would come peace over this house and all those who dwelled in it."
"I have a son," she told him. "His father died at sea."
"I thought I couldn’t live without him. I thought I’d stop breathing if he wasn’t near me. Especially after we’d made this baby together."
"Whatever he thought about he could see in front of him. Whatever he wanted he could have, except what he wanted most of all, which was not to die."
"Paris, my son, one day you will go to the other Paris. You will have a family and you will fly in a real airplane."