Strangers and Cousins Quotes

“...yet Bennie, like most highly defended people, is total mush beneath the carapace.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins

“All their antics have left them far from tired, though, to judge by the way they are dominating the conversation, with great animation and an unsortable pidgin of academic-use mixed with hipster jargon.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins

“Such a leaky emotion, jealousy, it always showed through, like grease on a paper bag.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins

“Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins

“Every healthy person hungers. To know things for himself. Form his own questions, test his own ideas. Funny how a person's own family is often the first to punish him for that.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins

“To feel forever inadequate: Is this simply the universal condition of being a father?”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins

“Theater is like the leopards, Clem told Diggs. It disrupts the status quo, she tried. Until its ideas bring about lasting change by getting incorporated in society. Maybe. Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy. She’s good at that. But if we’re talking expedience, law has it all over art, bambina.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins