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Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories QUOTES

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad wrecks through my life, date after bad date after bad boyfriend. She was the one who'd picked up the pieces after the musician, the investment banker, the humanitarian who was human to everyone but me.

When at last she spoke, she said, Oh, hell.

And, after that: Hallelujah. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

2 " Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

3 " On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

4 " We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

5 " He wanted terribly, to say, Stop, to say Bern’s name, to stroke her soft cheek where it was bitten by the light. But, in the end, he didn’t do anything at all. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

6 " And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

7 " There is no ending, no neatness... where water is concerned. It is wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous; it is dark and carries the mud, and it is clear and the cleanest thing. Too much of it kills us, and not enough kills us, and it is what makes us, mostly. Water is the cleverest substance, wily beyond the stretch of our mortal imaginations. And no matter where it is pent, no matter if it is air or liquid or solid, it will someday, inevitably, find its way out. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

8 " Her old body against his old body, unbeautiful in aging. But together, they were still beautiful, somehow. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

9 " Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world? "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

10 " Then he tells his son, "This feels like that breath you take after coming up from a long swim underwater. The most gorgeous feeling, that sip of air you feared you'd never have again." He looks at Compass, and touches his cheek, gently. "Surfacing," he says. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

11 " I never sleep late, and I know what this means: the worst cowards are the ones who refuse to look at what they fear. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

12 " I loved books like people; I liked real people less. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

13 " Famous people consume us because we are bored. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

14 " Lucrezia has never seen her own face, and cannot know its expressions--how, at that moment, her smile was an explosion. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

15 " in his throat, his own body struck to water. Hers is "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

16 " I like to think it's a happy ending, though it is the middle that haunts me. "

― Lauren Groff , Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories