The Coconut Children Quotes

“When the sun goes down, the insomniac dreams of having a nightmare, just to get some sleep in this too loud world.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“She had recognised him before he could remember himself.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“She thought of him now and made him last forever.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“Her mother believed that love, in its most noble and worthy form, was sacrifice. To love her was to love purgatory.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“Each breath told the story of summer air finding its way inside the dark; whenever it left his lungs, he looked like he longed to follow it.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“That was fuckin' beautiful, Tim Tam!' Vince shouted. 'Where the hell you learn to sing like that?'
'Same way you learn to cry, man,' Tim Tam answered with a laugh. 'Shit just came over me!”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“Michelle, still drowsy and dreamlike from the night before, flaunted her hangover like a heavy, jewel encrusted crown.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“There, against the dark lining of their eyelids, backlit by their most golden memory, would live the real Vince. The boy, the flesh of legend, the breath of an oral tradition.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“The yolk had been washed down the drain, but the feeling of being egged was still farm-fresh in her memory.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children