Kaleidoscope Quotes
"It was a hell of a way to see the world, and he had seen more than he’d ever wanted."
"The wind from the mountains went right through your bones, it was the worst winter Italy had ever seen."
"Harvard … with its perfect life and its pristine Quad and its bright young faces so sure they would one day run the world."
"She’d looked embarrassed at first, and there was the same cunning light in her eyes he had remembered and always hated."
"Shit… ." His last match was drenched, and by then so was the butt that had been his only Christmas present."
"I don’t care." He sounded like a disappointed schoolboy. "Maybe she’ll change her mind when she comes back."
"I love you, Solange … oh, God, how I love you."
"I don’t want ‘things,’ Arthur. I only want my husband."
"You humiliate me to the entire world … you make a fool out of me, and you expect me to sit here and take it. I want a divorce, Sam."
"I don’t have to ask you." It was the first time she had openly threatened him.
"All I have to do is have you followed. I could have divorced you fifty times by now."
"I killed her, Arthur … I killed her." He seemed almost not to see him … only her face when he strangled her … the red hair he loved so much … why?
"Don’t you think she was just trying to get back at you by saying that, for all the pain you’d caused her, and how else could she?"
"I don’t want children of my own, why would I want someone else’s? And theirs!"
"I love you … that’s all … I just love you … with all my heart. Will you always remember that, Axie?"
"If you touch me, I'll cut your balls off … and I mean it …"
"Smooth sailing, and then back to New York in a few years."
"Kinda like slavery, except you get to sleep in the main house."
"I won’t let you spoil my life. I’m going to make something of myself."
"The only thing that kept her going was her determination to survive."
"Don’t you want a husband and kids one day? That’s not very important to me."
"It was easier to show her here, in the dim light of her boudoir."
"What’s happened to women who want to have babies and live in the suburbs? Is that totally out of fashion?"
"Most women think like you, but they’re wrong. Hilary, the women who don’t have children now are going to panic in ten or fifteen years."
"1959 … she’d been in Boston then, with Eileen and Jack."
"Maybe that’s why I love my work so much. It’s home to me."
"I’m not going anywhere, my friend. I’ve got my eye on an office wayyyy upstairs."
"Don’t hang everything on your job, Hilary. You’ll end up alone one day, and disappointed."
"This is terrible, Adam. I never do things like this."
"I should." She grinned. "I’ve been around CBA for long enough."
"Not your style, Mr. Brock. In every possible way."
"Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, but we only see it in hindsight."
"Life had not been kind to her for a single moment."
"You can't always be the perfect wife. You have to think of yourself from time to time, not that you do it very often."
"It's a shame he didn't die before he decided to ruin everyone's life."
"Do they finally go away? Yes, when you resolve it."
"It was like one of the kaleidoscopes she gave to her children, you turned it just a fraction, and all of the same pieces fell into a totally different pattern."
"You were like his own flesh and blood … and more …"
"It's difficult to understand people giving way to that kind of violence and emotions."
"I think it's a shame so many lives were destroyed by one act of madness."
"I’m glad you came anyway. The three of you had a right to be together."
"I made a terrible mistake. But I’ve paid for it. I’ve been a lonely man all my life."
"This will be your home one day; I am leaving it to all of you."
"There’s nothing left to hate anymore. He’s almost gone."
"We survived in spite of that ... even you, Hilary."
"He’s repented for his sins ... he brought us here. What more do you want from him?"
"My Dad does anyway. He knows how crazy I am."
"Don’t let anyone talk you into dying your hair again ... you look beautiful."
"We could do it every year! Make it a tradition!"