Bone Gap Quotes
"Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow."
"Scarecrows weren’t made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn."
"His dreams used to be filled with the typical stuff: getting naked with this girl or that one."
"He didn’t sleep if he could help it. And he didn’t listen to the corn anymore."
"The pavement in front of Finn ended in a wall of sky, as if it had been sliced off by the swing of a scythe."
"Finn wasn’t impressed. "What are you guys supposed to be? Set decoration?""
"The crows said, "Coward!" They cackled and flapped, the sun shining blue on their glossy wings."
""Haven’t you heard?" Finn said. "I’m not so smart.""
"The sun was a yellow eye scorched in a blanket of blue."
"Sometime in the night, God knew when, Finn’s brother had cleaned things out, scrubbed things down."
""You know," said one of them, "anytime Sean wants some real brothers, we could make room for him.""
"Sean hadn’t mentioned becoming a doctor in a long, long while."
""To be the people we need to be, To make the changes we need to see, We must keep reaching for the stars, With hope inside our hearts.""
""Everybody has a story," Mrs. Lonogan said, her voice dreamy and distant. "Everybody has secrets.""
""The time will never be right," she said out loud."
""Whoa," said Finn. "Where did you come from?""
""I want to find Roza. I want to bring her back.""
""We got ourselves a farm girl, folks. Make no mistake.""
""It’s not a secret," Petey said. "Everyone knows how you felt—feel—about her.""
""Maybe I will," Finn said about keeping the horse."
""To talk to you," Finn said to Priscilla, indicating his reason for visiting in the middle of the night."
""You want him to help you up?" About Roza preferring Finn's assistance."
""I’m Sean O’Sullivan. That’s my brother, Finn." Sean introducing themselves to Roza."
""I cook for me. You get what’s left," Roza's declaration of independence and contribution to the household."
"I could crush that mouse by just thinking about it."
"You don’t have to wear anything you don’t want to wear."
"This dog is too much trouble! He tried to eat my mother."
"Pretty can’t feed you. And you’ll never be pretty enough for some people."
"You need to have an adventure. Do something different."
"Why would anyone want to leave here and go there?"
"Funny is the last thing Sean O’Sullivan is. He looks like Wolverine, only bigger."
"Being gorgeous might be more trouble than it’s worth."
"You can tell a lot about someone from how they treat their fictional characters."
"People sometimes get mad when someone they care about throws themselves in front of a charging thousand-pound animal wearing steel shoes."
"She scooped up the graphic novel and opened it to any random page, determined to get her mind on something else."
"The townspeople’s whispers hissing in her head, the new judgment in them."
"He looks at her like she used to look at herself in mirrors and windows and ponds so long ago. As if her face was interesting and unusual—unforgettable even."
"The way bees stroke one another’s antennae, feeding one another by touch."
"Maybe coming here today, meeting Petey where all these people would make up their own stories about them, was a bad idea."
"The full moon watched her with a warm and approving eye."
"The garden was green. The dirt was good. She could bury herself and be happy."
"I like your apples, but you’re not very bright."
"Dawn was spreading her rosy fingers in the sky."
"They tended to each other as they would have tended any garden."
"The world does keep turning even when you’re miserable."
"Because I’m . . . because of the way I look."
"You eat cookie, you must visit me in Poland. Is rule."
"You should have heard the Rude brothers going on."
"Roza chattering away while Sean leaned in to listen."