The Girl With Glass Feet
Ali Shaw
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ”
“One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation.”
“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”
“She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into another person at such a velocity as to fuse with him.”
“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”
“He imagined dying and being cut open and there were all his bones and muscles and his bared arteries and capillaries leading to a cavity in his chest where instead of a heart he had his camera.”
“I should take a photo.' 'No. Just remember it, and us in it.”
“Then there were the negatives. How he missed negatives. They were the actual rays of light, bounced straight off a landscape, an object, a person, and scarred on to the film. Photographic negatives were the hardest evidence you could get of your memories. They were the char left by the fire, the bruise left on your skin. The same light that carried to your eyes, on the day of your photograph, that image of your mother, or your father, or your close friend, had recorded itself on the film. And now, staring at the photo on the wall of Ida's transparent toes against the bed sheets, he thought how similar her feet were to negatives: both subjects of that half-world between memory and the present. These were not real, flexible, treading toes, but a play of light that showed where toes had been.”
“Carefully, he reached around her with both arms so his fingers locked across her back. 'You have to squeeze,' she whispered, 'or it's not a hug.”
“The sunset like a blacksmith, was beating the sky into glowing red blades.”
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Book Keywords:
regret, tragedy, love, collision, hope, life, writing, crash, memory, heartbreak
