The Cherry in the Martini Quotes

“We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.”
― Rona Jaffe, The Cherry in the Martini

“We are the behemoths—lost, lumbering, out of our time. We are about to become extinct. And yet we are young, barely thirty, and we have not even begun to live.”
― Rona Jaffe, The Cherry in the Martini

“I think I cry because I feel free.”
― Rona Jaffe, The Cherry in the Martini

“When pressured, my mother told me that God just hadn’t sent her any more children, but most of the time she liked to say that I was so perfect she knew she could never have another one like me, so she had stopped. Whenever she told me I was perfect, I wondered what was so terrible about me that she would have to lie this way to cover up.”
― Rona Jaffe, The Cherry in the Martini