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King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1) QUOTES

King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1) QUOTES

1 " Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

2 " Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads “Dentist. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

3 " Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

4 " Every corner of the sky awkwardly showed up wearing the exact same thing, a moody gray dress accessorized with flat clouds. If North, South, East, and West were drag queens, this would be bad, very bad. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

5 " Duck love is recognizable in any language. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

6 " I think jalapeno sounds like a bunch of letters piling into a beat-up old word to get tacos. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

7 " It's hard to categorize the half expressions, the ones which reside in between. But this morning, I'm calling Perry mad by sadwest. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

8 " I love hotel soaps. For some reason, I always believe those little soaps will bring me luck. So far, they have only brought me soap. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

9 " I warned you about those sexually graphic descriptions. Now you’ve alienated our only breakfast friend, a homophobic Republican on crack. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

10 " There should be a word for an attitude between snobbish and unconscious, describing someone who doesn't realize how strongly he holds his own opinions. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

11 " Oh good lord, I'm in a three-way with a cello. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

12 " I wonder sometimes why we don't have more words to express forgiveness. The words we use are so trite, so limited. How do you describe that first melting of a friend's face after a vicious fight, the moment when you suddenly know that eventually, you will survive this. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

13 " Have you ever done anything so significantly outrageous, so beautiful and insane, that on days when your life feels dull, these shining moments leap out? Do you have an answer to the question 'Did I live? Did I touch the world?'" (Vin) "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

14 " I wonder if Perry snores. I'm not going to ask; first dates can be so awkward.
Fuck it.
"Hey, do you snore? I hate to ask, because I know how awkward it is to bring up on the first date."
Perry spit-laughs a gob of drool.
"You're unbelievable."
"So, yes?"
"No, I do not snore."
"You look like a snorer. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

15 " It's good to be a bear and not take yourself so damn seriously. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

16 " These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

17 " I think Joy sleeps in strange places. We're always looking for her in shiny, happy, fun times, assuming that Joy prefers her twin brother, Pleasure, when she often hangs out with her somewhat stoic big sister, Strength. Joy is not always easy to recognize, dirt-smudged and sweating, brambles in her hair. I want to believe she sometimes wears a ski mask. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

18 " Breath, Perry. Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. (Vin) "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

19 " This is a disturbing fetish, Vin," he says, coming up for air. "Why can't you be into bondage like everyone else? "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)

20 " Perry does not love the cost of this adventure, but his investor brain is going to run the numbers. The brain always insists on being the last committee member to cave. The brain likes to make speeches that usually begin with a familiar opening:"Ladies and gentlemen, I have been wronged. "

― Edmond Manning , King Perry (The Lost and Founds, #1)