"â€¦ she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovahâ€™s Witness: uninvited and tireless."

-- Steve Toltz

#Memories Quotes #Jehovah Quotes #Looks Quotes

“As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.”
“God is good and I am always loved.”
“And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.”
“Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.”
“It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.”
“It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.”
“Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.”
“It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.”

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