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The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2) QUOTES

The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2) QUOTES

1 " Then she walked away, like Helen of Troy turning her back on Attica. A gust of warm wind blew newspapers along the boulevard into the sky. The light was orange and bleeding out of the clouds in the west, the horizon darkening, the waves crashing on the beach just the other side of Seawall Boulevard, the palm trees rattling dryly in the wind. I could smell the salt and the seaweed and the tiny shellfish that had dried on the beach, like the smell of birth. I "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

2 " Mr. Epstein is a cradle-to-the-grave ideologue. A leftist but nonetheless an ideologue.” “What’s an ideologue?” “Someone who brings religious passion to a political abstraction only cretins could think up,” he said. “When you meet one, flee his presence at all costs. He’ll incinerate half the planet to save the other half and never understand his own motivations.” “What are his motivations?” “Control, power, penis envy, addiction to breast-feeding, the fact that most of them are born ugly, God only knows. In one night, ten men like Mr. "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

3 " The sky was black, creaking with electricity, like someone crumpling cellophane. "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

4 " The juke and barbecue joints were loud, the doors wide open, the elevated sidewalks inset with tethering rings and littered with paper cups and beer cans, rust-stained where the rain spouts bled across the concrete. ~ James Lee Burke, "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

5 " I COULD SEE MY mother slipping away by the day, maybe even the hour, convinced that her public humiliation of Mr. Krauser had caused his suicide. The western sky could be strung with evening clouds that looked like flamingo wings; rain might patter on her caladiums and hibiscus and hydrangeas and roses and fill the air with a smell out of The Arabian Nights, the book that probably saved her sanity as a child. But no matter how grand a place the world might be, my mother’s eyes had the hollow expression of someone staring into a crypt. "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

6 " As a young person on the edge of discovering the world and shaking away the scales of your youth, did you ever have a day when you knew that for the rest of your life, you would be grateful that your father was your father and your mother was your mother, no matter how flawed they might be? "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

7 " The clouds were as yellow as sulfur and roiling in thick curds all the way to the horizon, as though we were trapped beneath an ocean that was sliding over the edges of the earth. "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)

8 " What’s an ideologue?” “Someone who brings religious passion to a political abstraction only cretins could think up,” he said. “When you meet one, flee his presence at all costs. He’ll incinerate half the planet to save the other half and never understand his own motivations. "

― James Lee Burke , The Jealous Kind (Holland Family Saga, #2)