A Hundred Summers Quotes

“Your father owns a history company?" I say teasingly.

Nick laughs. "No. Everyone on Wall Street has a history degree, though you'd never know it, the way they keep making the same mistakes, crash after crash.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Love. Really, it’s responsible for the most vulgar excesses.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Jazz, Miss Lily, is the bastard child of music, born from the old Negro work song by a whole lot of fine daddies who ain’t about to claim it.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“She's not beautiful not really only very good at looking beautiful.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“It’s always different, isn’t it, until it turns out to be the same.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Turn your head. No, the other way. Out the window.' I turn to the steamed-over plate glass, the shadowed buildings across the street. 'What, like this?' 'Now move your eyes and look at me. Just your eyes. Tilting up a bit. Yes.' He breathes out. 'Just like that. that, Miss Lily Dane, of only the best sorts of places, that is why I couldn't go back to sleep last night.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Maybe the fault is with the race, not the horse.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“strength”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Don’t worry about that. Don’t worry about any of it. We’re together, that’s what matters. What’s a few months? What’s a little blowup with our families? We’ve got fifty or sixty years to go, Lily. This is nothing.” He touches his forehead to mine. “Actually, this is everything. It’s our beginning. Start with a bang, that’s the thing.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Surely I would know if he weren’t. Surely, if Nicholson Greenwald’s heart stopped beating, mine would have felt a concurrent jolt, a cessation of momentum, like a stream cut off from its source.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Poor”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“she’s”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“right thing, Budgie,” I said. “You always have. It”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“pretty blue eyes, all full of feeling sorry for Budgie.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“papa”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“loved”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“friends”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“life,”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“you”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“them”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“child”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“letter”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“note.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“insisted,”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Why”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“she?”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“Flooded,”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“I”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“spineless”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers

“abandoned”
― Beatriz Williams, A Hundred Summers