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“There are only three certainties in this world, Marilyn. Death, taxes, and Jewish mothers wanting to marry their children off.”
The Goldmans tried so hard to impress everyone that they failed to impress anyone.
Speak with assurance and people will treat you as intelligent.”
“We all have to make our own mistakes and learn some things the hard way.”
Springs. And in Key West, no one cares who you were before. You can just disappear and exist without the world watching.”
I would be her age in 2015. We would have flying cars and be living on the moon by then.
“Darling, I care if you die. I would have to figure out how to get your body out so the house wouldn’t smell like something out of a Faulkner story.”
The world loves to destroy what it doesn’t understand. Some things can be hidden to be protected. Some can’t.”
Most people don’t see the bars that hold them. You and I do.”
He said it didn’t matter if you were Black, white, green, or purple. If someone was a good person and needed your help, you helped them if you could.”
