Little Bird of Heaven Quotes
Little Bird of Heaven
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Joyce Carol Oates3,187 ratings, 3.34 average rating, 452 reviews
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Little Bird of Heaven Quotes
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“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Why you can't trust women. Even young girls. Can't know what the fuck they are thinking, can't know what they are feeling, can't know how they will surprise you except to know it won't be a surprise you will like.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numberous others, will say it for you.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Se você não quer correr o risco. Talvez seja melhor não jogar nada.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“And he’d died because that life had mattered to him.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“inside me like a hole that can never be filled and there was Mira Roche”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“No baby ever saved anybody’s life that I ever heard”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“as men were smudged and stained by crying.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Você pode fingir ser quase tudo que não é, há pouquíssimas coisas que de fato se pode ser.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Como isso acontece, você gosta tanto de alguém — ama alguém, talvez — e depois, não muito tempo depois, o que sente é ódio? Um ódio horrível e funesto? Um ódio de vontade de matar? Por quê?”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Nunca soube de ninguém que tenha tido a vida salva por um bebê.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Mulheres eram especialistas em chorar, assim como os homens eram humilhados e impedidos de chorar. Mulheres eram purificadas pelo choro, assim como os homens eram maculados e manchados pelo choro.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Você tem o desejo de pôr a culpa neles, nos que foram assassinados. Sem dúvida que deseja pôr a culpa em qualquer mulher nua e estrangulada na própria cama.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
“Traição é uma coisa dolorosa. Traição é a ferida mais profunda. Traição é o que resta do amor depois que o amor acaba.”
― Little Bird of Heaven
― Little Bird of Heaven
