Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
April Genevieve Tucholke
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
“Lots of people have bad stories, and if they wail and sob and tell their story to anyone who’ll listen, it’s crap. Or half crap, at least.The stuff that really hurts people, the stuff that almost breaks them . . . that they won’t talk about. Ever.”
“Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.”
“You stop fearing the Devil when you're holding his hand...”
“Freddie once told me that I was the worst kind of stubborn-because I wasn't stubborn at all. I was patient. Patient, but determined. A stubborn person could be distracted, or tricked. But not me. I just held on and on and on, never giving up until I got my way, long after everyone else stopped caring.”
“I wish people would spread a Faustian rumor about me.' I leaned over and knocked Sunshine's hand out of Luke's hair. 'A Faustian myth,' I repeated. 'It's so much more interesting than just being that nouveau-poor blond girl who lives in a big house with nobody but her jackass brother with pecs bigger than his brain. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
“Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.”
“The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps, the good kind. It was the sound an orphan governess hears in a book,before a mad woman sets the bed curtains on fire.”
“It's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry.”
“River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.”
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Book Keywords:
devil, mythology, faustian-legend, sound, violet, stubborn, happiness, river-west, life, freddie, soul, crow, gothic, horror, calm
