Tiffany

“Scott Fitzgerald:
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“Do gringos kiss?’ Big Angel asked.
‘Some,’ Little Angel said. ‘I know guys. Kiss their dads.’
‘Everybody kisses moms, though.’
‘Kissing moms doesn’t count. It’s required.’
‘Right, right. If you don’t kiss your mom, forget it, man.’
‘Right? You don’t get to heaven if you don’t kiss your mom.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“For the first time I understood that I had driven Emily Warshaw from my life.
This was something I'd been trying to do for a long time--not intentionally, I swear, nor with any feeling of satisfaction, but in the automatic, methodical manner of a boy working on a loose tooth. Without reference to doppelgangers and the symptoms of the midnight disease it's hard to say why, exactly; but certainly a native genius for externalizing self-hatred may have had something to do with it. Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

“Men who do good deeds only wish to atone for their sins.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels