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Love and Other Consolation Prizes QUOTES

Love and Other Consolation Prizes QUOTES

1 " There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and forever long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we're lucky, twice in a lifetime. And when they do, they affect our gravity. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

2 " We all have things we don’t talk about, Ernest thought. Even though, more often than not, those are the things that make us who we are. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

3 " Sometimes you need to feel the sadness, you need to feel everything to finally leave it behind, to have peace. Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

4 " Memories are narcotic, he thought. Like the array of pill bottles that sit cluttered on my nightstand. Each dose, carefully administered, use as directed. Too much and they become dangerous. Too much and they'll stop your heart. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

5 " Parents always have a story that their children don’t really know, "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

6 " If anger is your currency, then you’re one rich bitch. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

7 " The present is merely the past reassembled, "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

8 " My theory,” Maisie said, “is that the best, worst, happiest, saddest, scariest, and most memorable moments are all connected. Those are the important times, good and bad. The rest is just filler. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

9 " Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

10 " The truth of the matter was that these days Gracie barely remembered him. Her mind had become a one-way mirror. Ernest could see her clearly, but to Gracie he’d been lost behind her troubled, distorted reflection. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

11 " He was used to people staring at him on the street—the villagers who’d spat at him or laughed. But for now he felt safely surrounded, comforted, as he drew a deep breath and melted into the girls’ kindness. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

12 " A long-lost love. A living, breathing embodiment of what might have been. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

13 " There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and forever long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we’re lucky, twice in a lifetime. And when they do, they affect our gravity. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

14 " I guess there’s a difference between the body and the soul. You can buy a body, but the heart…” He shook his head. “The heart, you can’t even rent.” — "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

15 " The standout, though, was Maisie May, who’d been growing her hair longer. Ernest had never seen her in a corset before, and he wondered what battle had been fought to get her into one of those spoon-billed contraptions. He imagined an angry, feral, six-toed cat, with long claws and no tail, hissing while being dunked into icy water. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

16 " Gracie’s memory was like a jigsaw puzzle with parts that didn’t always fit, but she’d found the all-important edge pieces. She was beginning to reframe her life—their life. It was a work in progress, but the image was coming together. “It’s "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

17 " the great Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909—Seattle’s forgotten world’s fair. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

18 " stumbled upon an old article about race and the AYP and how China had declined to sponsor an exhibit because delegates had been harassed at previous world’s fairs, and how ethnographic displays were immensely popular, like the Igorrote exhibit, a mock village of grass huts, which was basically a human zoo. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

19 " stumbled upon an old article about race and the AYP and how China had declined to sponsor an exhibit because delegates had been harassed at previous world’s fairs, and how ethnographic displays were immensely popular, like the Igorrote exhibit, a mock village of grass huts, which was basically a human zoo. As I kept digging, I was intrigued to learn that 1909 was also the height of Washington State’s suffrage movement. Both the Washington Equal Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association held conventions in Seattle to take advantage of the publicity of the AYP. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes

20 " But curiously, 1909 was also the peak of Seattle’s social evils—described as “dance halls, bagnios, crib houses, opium dens, and noodle joints…openly advertised in the full glare of electric light”—a major concern for the host city. "

― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes