The Whore's Child and Other Stories Quotes

“I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories

“What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept.”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories

“(God) seemed to know everything that was in her heart and to understand that nothing dwelt there that wasn’t absolutely necessary to her survival.”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories

“island’s handful of cops can’t enforce it when people ignore the signs and stroll the three miles up from the public beach. Connor is rumored to have set his dogs on such trespassers, even to have chased them off in his dune buggy. When we climb the last dune, I’m pleasantly distracted by the scene before us—the sun a few degrees above the water, miles of deserted sand in either direction, the crashing of the waves. Indeed, it has”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories

“His mother’s position was that his father could come back and live with them again as soon as he grew up, but not until. His father had predicted that his mother would kiss his ass before he’d ever walk through that door again. Both of these, Lin had concluded, were highly unlikely events.”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories

“We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: “Money talks. It says goodbye.”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories

“It’s just that living with him—being married to him— is like being covered with these little cuts all the time. There’s no big gash you can show anybody, nothing they’d believe would really hurt. But these damn little nicks, they suck the blood right out of you.”
― Richard Russo, The Whore's Child and Other Stories