What Big Teeth
Rose Szabo
Top 10 Best Quotes
“My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive. A light almost too bright to look at, but I forced myself to look as long as I could.”
“I sat with that for a long time. I thought of every person I had met, wondering how many of them had wolves inside them and just had never pulled them out. Or perhaps more horrible: how many of them, in a moment of fear, reached inside themselves for something to save them, and came up empty.”
“I don't love her, if that's what you mean," he says. "I just want her love to save me." I don't tell him that that's how it always begins: in selfishness, in ambition, in lust or desperation. That love starts out as something you want to bite into and ends as something that swallows you up.”
“It is madness to love someone: there is no greater feeling of estrangement that the ways in which they are different from you.”
“I don’t tell him that’s how it always begins: in selfishness, in ambition, in lust or desperation. That love starts out as something you want to bite into and ends as something that swallows you up.”
“I’ve been alone for so long that I can’t remember what it feels like to belong.”
“A wall fell down and suddenly I could see in, as though it were a dollhouse. A family of flames seated at the dining room table, flickering children racing up and down the stairs.”
“My younger self can't see it from here, but I can; how charity can be just another form of spite.”
“It is madness to love someone: there is no greater feeling of estrangement than the ways in which they are different from you.”
“I watched him and wondered if I was ever going to feel like I knew what I was doing.”
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Book Keywords:
spite, love, charity
