“We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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