Nice Big American Baby Quotes

“You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

“Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

“What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

“What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

“He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

“The women of my family seem to be the ones concerned with lineage; the men are at most ghostly presences. We have a tendency to disappear or fade away while our women cling on tenaciously.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

“The strange baby sucks at her, eating her up. That’s not yours, she wants to tell him. It’s on loan, it belongs to someone else. When he comes back, you’ll have to repay the debt somehow.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby