Tangerine Quotes

“But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“I set the garbage bag down and leaned against the station wagon, staring east, directly into the rising sun. I’m not supposed to do that because my glasses are so thick. My brother, Erik, once told me that if I ever look directly into the sun with these glasses, my eyeballs will burst into flame, like dry leaves under a magnifying glass.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“Victor jumped on Arthur and started pummeling him furiously, landing roundhouse blows to his head so fast that his arms were a blur, like the nylon strings on a Weed Whacker.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“I was all the way down at the entrance pond before I stopped. I stood there and stared at the dark water until I finally understood. And it was so very simple. There's no big mystery here. The truth about Luis is obvious to all of the people around him. Their lives are not made up of bits and pieces of versions of the truth. They don't live that way. They know what really happened. Period. Why would that seem so mysterious to me?”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“You know how to spell that? G-U-Z-M-A-N. Don’t you go spelling my name wrong, or I’ll have to mess you up.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“Not remember? You’ve got to be kidding. Erik’s flying banana-peel back-flop in the mud is the one thing about this game that everybody is going to remember.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“sixth and seventh graders”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“football stadium has just lost half of its seating capacity. And Erik Fisher, the soon-to-be-famous placekicker, has just lost half of his audience.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“After I finished reading the essay, I began to worry. Did Betty Bright mind the publicity? I thought about her meeting at the practice field with Mr. Donnelly and the photographer, and Shandra Thomas's frightened run from the camera. Did Betty Bright feel the same way? Did she mind this painful memory being plastered across the front page of the newspaper? Did she mind having to relive that punch in the eye?”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine