We Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous. Nobody had to teach us this lesson—it was just something we knew from the earliest days on the playground.”
“Remember that darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light. And just like that, you’ll find yourself everywhere instantly.”
“[E]ach of us a candle in the darkness, because while the moon is our soul sister, unlike her we are no one’s reflection—we shine in dark places by the light of our own being.”
“We danced all night. We danced the length of one song. We danced for just a moment. May we be so lucky as to still be dancing under the light of the Harvest Moon three hundred years on!”
“Maybe that was their magic. Having fun and enjoying one another’s company. Being lifted up even when you were being beaten down.”
“What would you yourself do to remain forever young? What would you confess to the great and silent god that watches in the dark?”
“We were teen girls. Look up the word “blasé” in Merriam-Webster’s and you’d find a picture of us, our eyes burning through your soul from the page.”
“Third Year German was the only class where she felt vaguely human. They spent the period listening to "99 Luftballons" and trying to work out the lyrics back into English. Hielten sich fur Captain Kirk. When you found German comforting, you knew you were in trouble”
“Sooner or later, her daughter would find out for herself what it meant to live in a world that pulled the plug on the Van Peebleses.”
“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. —JOHN UPDIKE, The Witches of Eastwick”
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