Zilla Novikov > Zilla's Quotes

“a damn roach…[that] scuttled around just like Nate; reappearing, existing forever, never dying. Like Twinkies. So bad, yet deeply desired.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“But maybe healing from the wound on my foot was just the beginning. Maybe I still needed to heal the wound on my heart, too.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I couldn't believe this was happening. That I could possibly be everything Vinny wanted. That this was real life and I was here being carried to Vinny's bed like a princess. Like his princess.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I used to be alive, filled with fire, consuming the world like tomorrow might never come. I relished a good love story, the exertion of leaping across a ballet studio, the sighs a piece of art could emit from me. Since the injury, since my heartbreak, I'd lost my desire. It was time to find it again and the Billys weren't doing the trick.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I glanced over at...Billy? I think his name was Billy. If it was, he'd be the third one since the walking boot came off. Like the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Trip trap, trip trap right into my bed. Especially after one too many Pinot Grigios.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“Who put sadness in your eyes?”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“I spent hours perusing the bookcases, knee-deep in second-hand novels that smelled like people I'd never met.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“While I was dancing my ass off in arguably the best ballet company in the nation and earning my B.A. in English online my friends were marrying Billys.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“a whiff of orange underneath a musky cinnamon, faint hints of lemon and cedar. Like the end of summer drifting into fall.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“Oh Jesus, I’d fucked the Lucky Charms leprechaun.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“One can begin “being” one’s true self and end up “doing” quite a lot, but what one does with one’s true self may not be what the boss asked for.”
― Tucker Lieberman, Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption