Real Easy Quotes

“Other arms reach out to me. Other eyes smile tenderly. Still in peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to you.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy

“Love is patient, love is kind. It keeps no record of wrongs.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy

“If her grandmother knew about her existence, then her father must, too, which made his absence have a different meaning.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy

“His mother claims not to miss anything about Cuba except the way she visited friends, which was to walk through their gardens and into their houses, without knocking, and to sit down at a kitchen table as if she were in her own home. That is not the way here, she says, and anyway there are no friends.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy

“Simple as that. It makes her impatient, the way people think that a stripper must be some cracked-out whore, like no good woman ever took off her clothes for practical reasons. What is marriage, half the time? Women have sex they don’t want in order to keep the peace and avoid the calamity of divorce, yet everyone thinks that’s perfectly acceptable.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy

“She didn’t know how to express the expectedness of sexual violence, how it felt nearly inescapable. It is so common that a warning might as well be stamped on the birth certificate of every newborn girl.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy