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The Whore's Child and Other Stories QUOTES

The Whore's Child and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept. "

― Richard Russo , The Whore's Child and Other Stories

2 " (God) seemed to know everything that was in her heart and to understand that nothing dwelt there that wasn’t absolutely necessary to her survival. "

― Richard Russo , The Whore's Child and Other Stories

3 " I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for. "

― Richard Russo , The Whore's Child and Other Stories

4 " We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: “Money talks. It says goodbye. "

― Richard Russo , The Whore's Child and Other Stories

5 " His mother’s position was that his father could come back and live with them again as soon as he grew up, but not until. His father had predicted that his mother would kiss his ass before he’d ever walk through that door again. Both of these, Lin had concluded, were highly unlikely events. "

― Richard Russo , The Whore's Child and Other Stories

6 " It’s just that living with him—being married to him— is like being covered with these little cuts all the time. There’s no big gash you can show anybody, nothing they’d believe would really hurt. But these damn little nicks, they suck the blood right out of you. "

― Richard Russo , The Whore's Child and Other Stories