Poppy Gee > Poppy's Quotes

“And I think about what it is to be too old and how I don't want to get there and wish I had spent my life feeling happier with what I'd had, rather than always feeling bad about what I'd done.”
― Eleanor Limprecht, The Passengers

“Jack had other friends, men with whom he played golf, went sailing, or had long business lunches. Some were farmers he had known since he was a boy, others were friends from boarding school or work connections. They were friends who required something of him, a level of either intellectual or professional engagement. With Cliff he could relax. It wasn't so much that he could be more himself. Rather, with Cliff, he could be nothing.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“If you think about where murderers hide bodies, it's bound to be a place they know. You wouldn't drive to a new place. Too risky. It would make sense for the place where you dispose of a body to be close by. You would choose a place that you've been before, even if it was years ago.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Burying a person in the rainforest is like throwing a body off a boat into the ocean. It's too dense to search...”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“The air was fragrant with the cinnamon-scented sassafras bark. A flock of birds, white on the blue sky, fell like they had lost their breath in unison.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“In this garden, the air was sweet and clean, like the cool water running in the creek. Beyond the garden was the rainforest, a damp cathedral of fragrant myrtle and sassafras, sprawling mosses and ancient lichen... There was only one road into Vanishing Falls... the road meandered through hilly green pastures where black-and-white cows grazed, past pretty weatherboard farmhouses with splendid man ferns out front, thick hedges, and rose gardens.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't change over time, you know what? They just haven't lived long enough. (Page 33)”
― Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

“But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like someone had unplugged the radio in the middle of a good song. (Page 37)”
― Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win