The Body Is Water Quotes

“I would like to confess things to her, to throw myself in her lap, to open the cage of my chest and show her the bones.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“On our hall we have one of everything: a resident musician, a genius, a motherly figure, a baby, a village idiot, a prostitute, a drunk, and the mildly insane.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“my father says, stirring the soup that he’s concocted: tuna and pepperoni in a chicken broth.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Not much else to do in there. There’s no TV.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“There is no way to teach someone, I thought, who doesn’t like or respect you enough to learn.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Bee, have you considered a job as a counselor? I think you’d be really good at relating to people. Have you ever met any people by the way?”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Jesus,” my father mumbled whenever he opened the refrigerator and found health-food peanut butter, brown salt-free bread, and a jar of thriving alfalfa seeds, “the world could end tomorrow and we’d have eaten a last meal of this stuff.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Our mother has taken up knitting since she got sick but doesn’t knit well. We keep waiting to see a sweater, even a glove, but she knits without projects in mind, tearing things out to begin again. Sometimes she puts the knitting down and looks out the window, as if there were something in the dark to see.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Just because you’re playing without the rules doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Just because you’re playing without the rules doesn’t mean they don’t exist. If I could have given you anything, I would have given you caution and common sense.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“Children always take their own parents for idiots.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water

“How do you know I’m pregnant?” “It’s amazing.” He cracked his knuckles. “Children always take their own parents for idiots. They come in reeling drunk at 1 am, smelling of cherry brandy and cigarettes, and think the old man’s a detective for finding out they weren’t studying with a friend.”
― Julie Schumacher, The Body is Water