And We All Bled Oil
Abigail C. Edwards
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I thought about the fruit of ancient tradition, oil like blood, and suddenly I realized that if olive oil was sacred, then this was sacrilegious.”
“He swirled his drink and stared off into the crowd, terribly satisfied. “Have you ever seen a face so weirdly symmetrical? Put our man Luca Catenacci on a poster for…Sicilian cologne. Those genes? With the whole Vitelli-Marzano thing you’ve got going?” He issued a low whistle. “Unstoppable.”
“Enjoying the view?” I asked, finally, tired of his eyes drilling into the side of my head. “Enjoying isn’t the right word,” he returned, swirling his amaretto. “It’s more a morbid fascination with your spiral into self-destruction.”
“We’re cynical because we know the world. If we were optimists, we’d also be idiots.”
“Tonio had disappeared again into the kitchen—I heard him banging around some dishes. He had this habit of making a huge dish once or twice a week, then freezing it and eating the same thing for every meal until it was gone. Except for breakfasts, which were usually composed of a cappuccino and heaping spoonfuls of Nutella on saltine crackers. As someone who had a lot of feelings about food, I found it a fairly scandalizing arrangement, but I figured it would be just as upsetting if witnessed by the average person.”
“Romance, I thought, was a poor replacement for freedom.”
“No offense,” said Tonio, in a way that suggested he hoped we took full offense, “but you two are the last people I’d accept lifestyle advice from.”
“Hey, I didn’t realize you had more than one friend. Brava, brava, bravissima.” “Eat your heart out, Tonio.”
“You’re a Marzano, that’s enough. You are testament to a union made decades ago, between Vitellis in Brooklyn and Marzanos in Sicily. For over twenty years, we’ve done what we could to keep that tie strong. We’ve made sacrifices.” The fire popped behind him, but he didn’t flinch. “What would you do for your family, Pia?”
“What would you do for your family?” Savino asks. “How far would you go?” Because he’s done more. He’s spilled oil and blood for this family, and sometimes I wonder if they aren’t the same thing.”
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