The Dogs of Balboa Quotes

“We take it for granted that our parents are like trees. They never run out of boughs for us to pick fruit from. The thing is, if you pick a fruit when it's not ready, it grows back slower the next season. The more you do this, the less fruit you'll get. Keep it up, and in the end you'll have a fat belly and a barren tree.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa

“Everything's a painting, anyway," Fawn said. "That's what I think. We live inside a giant painting, only we can't see who's holding the paintbrush. Any time something strange happens in your life it's because the painter added a new brushstroke you can't see. The big picture keeps changing, but we're stuck in the small one.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa

“Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa

“You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa

“Hope for the best," I said. "Prepare for the worst.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa

“Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa

“Patches of hair stuck to his wet cheekbones. His ears were threaded with tiny little wampum earrings, except at the cartilage, where the rings were turquoise. His stubby nose ended abruptly at the bottom of a short bridge. His face tapered with a round chin, a white birthmark under his jaw. He was my favorite picture. He burned into the backs of my eyes.”
― Rose Christo, The Dogs of Balboa