Apples Never Fall Quotes
"The silence howled through her so-called empty nest."
"It was as if they were for display purposes only."
"You don’t get to use the lingo, Mum, if you’ve never had a migraine."
"The secret of a happy marriage: step away from the rage."
"You feel strange and teary and fragile and surreal but you are fine."
"The truth was, Brooke didn’t even remember her mother dismissing her migraines."
"Migraine sufferers shouldn’t start new businesses or separate from their husbands."
"She was responsible for the incarceration of a monster, and sometimes the monster broke free."
"Every person you meet starts out as a stranger. Your father was a stranger when I first met him. You were a little stranger, when I first met you."
"Everyone loved a success story. Their ‘So You Want to Write a Memoir’ teacher had said ‘rags to riches’ and ‘overcoming the odds’ were the most popular themes for memoirs."
"You didn’t let Dad move in to your house the moment you met him. No, but I let you move in!"
"‘I hate cooking,’ she admitted. ‘You’ve no idea how much I hate cooking, and it just never ends, the cooking, night after night after bloody night.’"
"‘I’m not saying it was fair,’ Logan replied, discussing the traditional roles in his parents' marriage."
"‘This is not about evening the score,’ Claire had said with a tremulous smile, presenting Troy with an ethical dilemma."
"‘SIT STILL, TROY DELANEY!’ his teachers used to roar, and sometimes, if he liked the teacher, he would try to sit still."
"‘You’re a risk-taker, then,’ said Savannah, acknowledging Troy’s profession with a subtle note of respect."
"‘It’s okay. I’m quite happy to tell you,’ she said, and he’d asked the stupid question, so his punishment was to endure the painful answer."
"‘There’s no place like Grandma’s. Except your mother isn’t a grandma, is she?’ Savannah mused, sparking a moment of introspection."
"It's hard to want something so badly and give it your all and then not get it."
"You just had to follow them. Only his hands could talk, and he tried to let his hands say everything he wasn’t allowed to say out loud."
"But there was no recognition or praise or approval for what had cost him so dearly."
"It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you won’t ever be good enough."
"No more striving. No more failing. The absolute bliss of thinking, I will never lose again."
"All the way back to Tracey, when Troy was also dating a Tracey."
"It had all seemed so terrifyingly mysterious when they were children, like he’d vanished into thin air."
"He would always be average. Smack-bang in the middle of the bell curve on every scale."
"The taste of the illicit chocolate in bed, shared with no sibling, after he’d cleaned his teeth."
"Even when dishevelled and drunk he’d smelled of soap and clean laundry."
"Some people couldn’t get over her lack of a driver’s licence. It was like her dad’s refusal to own a mobile phone. People took it personally."
"‘I’ve never been behind the wheel of a car,’ said Amy. ‘I’m pretty sure I died in a car accident in a previous life. Possibly involving a bridge.’"
"‘I have good attention to detail,’ said Simon. ‘I’m thorough.’"
"One of my goals for the next few weeks is to improve my spontaneity."
"‘Do you iron your jeans?’ she asked. He was so exotic."
"‘It’s okay that I iron my jeans?’ ‘No, that is definitely not okay.’"
"‘We could work on your spontaneity,’ she said. ‘We could,’ said Simon."
"‘Sing out if Joy needs anything.’ Because I am the one who can provide your mother with everything she needs."
"‘She looks like a demon child,’ commented Simon. ‘I know,’ said Amy. ‘I always think that!’"
"‘I’ll just pop my head in the door and see if Mum is still asleep,’ said Amy."
"You’re accusing a woman of lying about domestic violence."
"‘That poor girl is in my kitchen right now making my favourite soup,’ said Joy. ‘Do you know how much effort goes into minestrone?’"
"She’s doing everything! I don’t need to lift a finger."
"Savannah has something called highly superior autobiographical memory."
"She can remember whole days in her life with a degree of detail that you and I, ordinary people, would find impossible."
"It was like watching an accountant perform in an amateur community production."
"‘Is that, let me guess, Greek?’ ‘Apparently,’ said Savannah shortly."
"‘It’s a good dress,’ said Savannah. Joy’s eyes filled with unexpected tears as she felt a thin, sharp, strangely pleasurable piercing of grief for her mother."
"‘I know exactly the right necklace to go with your shift dress,’ said Joy to Savannah."
"‘You opened your door to me.’ ‘So that’s a start! Maybe I could get a green pendant.’"
"He didn’t really think he was her boyfriend just because they’d slept together twice, did he?"
"‘You must have wanted an excuse to get out,’ Claire had said, her face ashen."
"The Saucy Stripper. Chicken strips and sweet chilli sauce. You hungry? I won’t eat it all."
"‘In case she’s no good,’ said Dave. ‘In case she can’t get what’s in her head and her heart onto the canvas.’"
"Maybe she’s afraid of being afraid. That she’ll be so paralysed by fear she won’t do a thing, she’ll just stand there with her paintbrush, feeling like a fraud."
"You can still fight back from match point down."
"If you want to overcome a losing streak, you re-evaluate your game."
"You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong."
"You can be number one in the world, you can win and win and win, but it's inevitable: eventually you will lose."
"If you'd really wanted it, nothing would have stopped you."
"You were never going to rank in the top ten, Joy. If I thought you could have got there, I would never have let you stop."
"Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything."
"Everyone was so a potential criminal. Or a potential victim."
"Amazing to think something beautiful could lie beneath the ugliness and all you had to do was peel it away."