Moonrise
Sarah Crossan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What can we forgive? Anything. If that's what we choose.”
“Time travel me back. Let me say good-bye again. A minute more, a moment, a chance to see. . .”
“You stay in today, Joe, 'cause tomorrow's a story that ain't been written yet. No use in rehearsing it. No use at all.”
“I don't know why I didn't put my arms around her, tell her it's OK, that I know she never meant to hurt me, that sometimes we like people we shouldn't and by the time we feel what we feel it's already too late.”
“Will you be ok if I'm not around? he asked. Sure, I said, but I didn't mean it. Ed was my brother but also sort of like my dad and my best friend too.”
“Some guys get fifteen years, others get life. So death for Ed but not for everyone. Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too. Like, don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there. Just doesn't seen fair to me.”
“So, do all the stuff you want even if someone tries to deadlock your front door. Be brave about it. Open the back door at night and let in the noises, or hell, I don’t know, run, escape if you have to. If that’s the only way to live. And if someone tries to stop you, you tell them you can’t save anyone’s life but your own.”
“Death row is a place for broken people just like Tom Hanks. They can't be fixed, warped all out of shape by the cracks and splinters inside them. And what else can you do with stuff that's broken except throw it in the trash? Right?”
“Being with Nell knocks my head back, makes my bones thrum, my blood ring and boil up until we are reaching, grabbing, smothering each other. And skin to skin our aching bodies press to find a way in - and I mean pressing, pressing, pressing. And there's teeth brawling, hands clutching, as we pour our way into each other until everything stops, gives way to soft kisses. quiet breaths of friendship, and I say, 'Are you OK?' and actually fucking mean it.”
“I lit a candle for Ed, thought about him alonde during the holidays in a cell with no tinsel or twinkling lights, no chance of seeing a full moon or any moon for that matter.”
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Book Keywords:
memories, contemporary, regret, death-row, time, love, death-penalty, moments, human-nature, full-moon, prison, remembrance, live-in-the-moment, tomorrow, poetry, justice-system, death-row-inmates, goodbyes, worrying
