The Lullaby of Polish Girls Quotes

“To Judy Blume, Ann M. Martin, Lois Lowry, and V. C. Andrews; to Eva Hoffman and Lorrie Moore; to Barbara Trapido, Toni Morrison, and Dostoevsky; to TC Boyle, and Miłosz and Szymborska; to Frank McCourt and Francine Prose; to Márquez and Bukowski—my first loves, my mad loves, my many loves, too many to name.”
― Dagmara Domińczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“To all the Polish boys who broke my heart, and vice versa.”
― Dagmara Domińczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“And maybe the light of day would bring a bit of regret with it, regret at how wasted they got, and how disrespectful they had been, to both the living and the dead. Or maybe they’d continue in the only way they knew how; at once shielding their pain and sharing it, brutally, in revelatory spasms, but always with a wan smile and a wink.”
― Dagmara Domińczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“She’s aware of her breathing slowing down, and it feels so nice, this momentary awareness of one’s own spiral into complete and total darkness.”
― Dagmara Domińczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“Nie płacz, Ewka, bo tu miejsca brak na twe babskie łzy, po ulicy milość hula wiatr wśród rozbitych szyb,”
― Dagmara Domińczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“Just a few kilometers away but she already feels tęsknota—a Polish word that describes a kind of yearning for which there is no American equivalent.”
― Dagmara Domińczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“apart and it will always be your job to put them back together.” There are countless instances of things falling”
― Dagmara Dominczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls

“You know who else had a kid when she was a teenager? Holy fucking Mary, Mother of God! And that shit turned out fine, that shit saved the world, didn't it now?”
― Dagmara Dominczyk, The Lullaby of Polish Girls