"No one is going to hear what she says whether she speaks or not. Simply she could close her eyes and never speak again. She could suck all of the air in this room-every dust mote, every atom-into her body and hide it inside herâ€¦"

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Source : Laura Kasischke (2002). “The Life Before Her Eyes”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Laura Kasischke

#Eye Quotes #Air Quotes #Dust Quotes

“It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.”
“It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brotherâ€™s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legsâ€”just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.”
“Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.”
“Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.”

Source : Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2010). “The Dragon Variation”, p.10, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.”
“For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.”
“I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.”
“Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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