"The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)"

-- Dorothy Allison

#Father Quotes #Book Quotes #Daddy Quotes

“I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?”
“The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.”
“One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.”
“Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.”
“Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.”
“When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody.”
“iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?”
“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.122, Penguin

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