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Small Orange Fruit QUOTES

Small Orange Fruit QUOTES

1 " She was angry and humiliated and hurt, but she wasn't belligerently vicious. She was clever. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

2 " The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

3 " Every loving, endearing, romance of language he published in the newspapers about the haunted mansion had only been to lower her guard. To weaken her. To lure her. To keep it from being demolished before he got the chance to bleed her of everything she'd ever been worth. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

4 " What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

5 " It was beginning to look as if he hadn't just found a sign of water on a destitute planet, he'd found a sign that the same planet had penguins. Those would be two fundamentally different breakthroughs. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

6 " The utopian candy shell melted away to a hard center of bizarre reality. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

7 " They each raised their glasses from the puddles on the table, and clinked them together in celebration. They weren't sure what they were celebrating, but more than anything it felt like they were celebrating that exact moment in time and all of the incredible events that had to take place for it to have existed in time at all. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

8 " Please stop redirecting my calls!" Kelvin screamed into the receiver, the cord wrapped and strangling his left arm and right foot like a boa constrictor that only vaguely understood how it's supposed to catch prey. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

9 " This drink is an Elixandria. It's named after our sun, that's why it's this nice orange color. The brown liquid on top is dark rum, and we pour it over to represent a setting sun. Little bit of rum? 'Dawn'. Little more rum? 'Dusk'. You looking to get drunk? 'Dark'. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

10 " He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

11 " It smelled overwhelmingly of floral air fresheners being used to disguise the scent of marijuana, which works like a charm if you only ask the people smoking the marijuana. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

12 " His eyeballs felt as if they'd been removed, dry roasted, salted, and replaced. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

13 " He inquired with the confidence of anyone trying free samples at a grocery store and putting on an Oscar-worthy performance of a person that was going to come back and buy it all later. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

14 " The money he stuffed into the gaping void of family fell limply through to the floor of a mansion he lived in alone. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

15 " They had thought it was uncharacteristic of him to try and eat his cigarette in the driveway. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

16 " Those concocting evil schemes rarely perform them in descending order of evilness, so he could assume phase two was to be worse. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

17 " But there's a sense of camaraderie in that, in knowing that you're on the same team of players all looking to play a different game. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

18 " ...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

19 " It was impeccably clean, and smelled like an old library might smell if someone was eating a Subway sandwich in it. Because someone was eating a Subway sandwich in it. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit

20 " Kelvin could request favors within the administration easily, as those marionette strings looked remarkably like lines of ink that read 'Pay to the Order of'. "

― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit