Grand Ambition Quotes

“Her body turned from side to side—a jewelry-box ballerina, stirred by the wash.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“four broken eggshells, each half nested carefully in the other.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Even a good marriage has its loneliness, she thought,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Emily Dickinson calls it ‘truth told slant,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“You could have been shanghaied down at the docks.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“chicken pot pie, the crust shattering under the fork,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“She had spent that summer and early fall fancying herself a character in a Willa Cather novel, so caught up in the symbolic bounty of the harvest”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“When she turned forward again, white arms of froth reached up from the rapid.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Wind blew down the canyon like breath through a straw, pushing the scow forward and pleating the river ahead of them.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“When she breathed in the sage and dust and tang of orange peel, it smelled to her like deliverance.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“a tight ocher passageway,”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“When they woke on the morning of November 6, the sky was fired a pale blue, the air soft and nearly motionless.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“her white blouse with the little buttons bo-peeping down the front.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“you stood still.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Death didn’t miss you because”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition

“Perhaps because the camera reserved judgment.”
― Lisa Michaels, Grand Ambition