Chocolates for Breakfast Quotes

“Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.”
― Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

“That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.”
― Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink would reassure her as the smell of dinner cooking or the sound of a hose spraying a summer lawn would another.”
― Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

“She had never seen an atom and never wanted to, because the idea of mountains and people being just different arrangements of things of the same shape was disagreeable to her.”
― Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

“Teachers are a little like scientists in their way of breaking down the magnificent vastness of life into small particles that can be analyzed, and thereby robbing it of its emotion.”
― Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast