Tiffany

“Only selfish people are negative, Angel.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“Carnal, rocks remember when they were mountains.'
They stared at the rocks in the garden.
'And what do mountains remember?'
'When they were ocean floors.'
Big Angel, Zen master.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.”
― 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