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Smoke QUOTES

Smoke QUOTES

1 " For what after all is Smoke? Yearning. Courage. Anger. The type of fear that coils itself into a fist. Defiance. Triumph. Hope. It’s the animal part of us that will not serve. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

2 " For a minute and more after this announcement, Thomas goes deaf. It's a funny sort of deaf: his ears work just fine but the words he hears do not reach his brain, not in the normal manner where they are sifted for significance and given a place in the hierarchy of meaning. Now they just accumulate. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

3 " The dog appears to be sleeping, dreaming; sweeps its tail across the floor in jerky crescents... "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

4 " ...a light passes the door. It slides through the crack like an inverted shadow, licks a yard of floorboard, and is gone. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

5 " But hi stomach is a knot. No, not his stomach. His entrails, from colon to diaphragm. A knot. It will take hours to unpick. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

6 " ...the blue-black mark that crawls out of the crater of his wound and insinuates itself onto his cheek. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

7 " He cannot spit, it seems, without her presence being written in the bile. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke

8 " It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate. "

― Dan Vyleta , Smoke