Small Orange Fruit Quotes

“When nothing around you makes sense, everything is equally threatening.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The utopian candy shell melted away to a hard center of bizarre reality.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She was angry and humiliated and hurt, but she wasn't belligerently vicious. She was clever.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“They each raised their glasses from the puddles on the table, and clinked them together in celebration. They weren't sure what they were celebrating, but more than anything it felt like they were celebrating that exact moment in time and all of the incredible events that had to take place for it to have existed in time at all.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The money he stuffed into the gaping void of family fell limply through to the floor of a mansion he lived in alone.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...from sweaty-palmed anxiety blooms vivid imagination.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He smiled at her, the same smile stapled to the mask of every career politician.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“In order to cope with death, you need the correct punctuation. Not a final period, not a comma as on Aleya, but a chance to fill in the blank--- life, 'dot dot dot'.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...celebrating in a sea of little more than cacti and a billion stars.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She was fantastically beautiful, so even though her words sounded like fragile utopian glass that would shatter horrendously on Earth in about five minutes, it sounded nice when she said it.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“It was as if a mad scientist had sold all of his important tools and chemicals at a yard sale, leaving a makeshift laboratory of scrap materials that the neighbors didn't want.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She was an anomaly of her own universe and of his, and represented the collision of everything he'd ever known and everything he'd ever wanted to.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“It was almost beautiful if you didn't think about it ever, at all.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“I doubt there's any significance in a second-to-last breath.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“They'd sold their souls to his reminder to pick up Cheerwine and bananas.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“There just seemed to be so many evolutionary layers to each individual person, some more than others, that they were able to blend their differences into a living mural the way a planet like Hessdalen never could. And never would, seeing as how it had ceased to exist entirely. It had missed it's chance.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The hatred was, in a word, monochromatic.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“His eyeballs felt as if they'd been removed, dry roasted, salted, and replaced.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He was a powerful man; he had powerful contacts, and two hidden office levels that, although weren't dungeons, could be used for anything his desperate mind set out to do.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“If Bagel's face was a lump of clay on a pottery wheel, it'd been rapidly thrown from an angry grey blob to a rather enthusiastic vase.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“They stood there looking as if they'd weathered a brief but intense storm between Bagel's cubicle and the break room.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...as if his bank account wasn't about to see numbers it would have to take a remedial math course just to identify.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...it was one of his more charming and less murderous, conspiring qualities.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The driver had recently scraped an 'AMRAK is Love' decal from his back window, leaving a sticky residue of his former beliefs.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“It was a beaten-down level of sharing responsibility; a frail society holding each other's hands just to keep from falling over.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit