Tamara

“Everyone wanted to call her sweetheart. But she only danced for me. That’s how it was. She told me that every other step was just for me.” “But that’s only half of the dance,” I said. “Yeah,” my father said. “She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain’t healthy.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not do no murder.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios … We were all in it together.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.”
― Adam Langer