Pretty Baby Quotes

“Momma used to say, “We don’t have much, but at least we have each other.” And then one day, we didn’t even have that much.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“I came to understand it wasn’t about the information itself but the exchange: a pact, a bond.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“my”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“Having a best friend is a wonderful thing. There needs be no proofreading, no refinement, of the comments that come from my head.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“How much can you really know about another person?”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“As it was, it was the baby or me, and I chose me, a decision that would haunt me for the rest of my life.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“I don’t”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“I absolutely love the library, with its sunlight atrium (though not sunlit today) and grotesque granite gargoyles and millions and millions of books. I love the quietness in the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“Did you know sea otters hold hands when sleeping so they never, ever drift apart?”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it,” she nearly whispers, and I find myself staring, dumbly, until she says, “Anne of Green Gables.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“He moved to our junior high from San Diego, California, which was respect worthy in and of itself, but on top of it, the kid could dance, the Carlton and the jiggy, the tootsee roll. He was the envy of the other boys, the one the girls idolized.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“I stroke a finger down Ruby's cheek, feeling the soft, cherubic skin, staring into the innocent, ethereal eyes. The baby latches to my finger with her chubby little fist, the bones and veins tucked under layers and layers of baby fat, the only time in one's life when fat is adorable and heavenly.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“I know how women are. A little camaraderie can fix anything.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“Having a best friend is a wonderful thing. There needs be no proofreading, no refinement, of the comments that come from my head. “What”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“he’d say. Sacrilege. But Joseph never did”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“that”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“catch her sometimes,”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby