Vera Quotes

“Doesn’t everyone have at least two opposing natures warring inside them?”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“Wednesday, April 18, 1906, we ate roast beef and apricot jam. Pie”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“he studied the two photographs he carried with him at all times: the first of his wife and children, the second, a portrait of him as a young man, singing on a street corner by his house.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“They taught us about the Spanish conquistadors, who sailed for years, fighting tides and hurricanes, scurvy and venereal disease in search of her; they starved themselves on hardtack, their ships battered, their tongues blistered from wind and a scarcity of water, yet still they managed to rape and pillage, and therefore, as God’s punishment, they were standing on the wrong side of the boat when they passed the fogbound Golden Gate. All that trouble, all those years, and they missed the pearl—not once but twice.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“There’s only one thing worth loving, my girl. Freedom. Always I have loved my freedom”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“come at the price of your soul, when you are melancholy more often than not, when you are fierce in a world of feathers and folly, when you’re alone in every room you enter, you do not fit in. You never will. I know you.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera

“I always thought of my city as a woman. But the house, it turned out, was a woman too. When the quake hit, she groaned. Her timbers strained to hold on to their pins, the pins snapping. And the rocks beneath the house? They had voices too. And if I ever wondered how long it would take for the world to end, I know: forty-five seconds.”
― Carol Edgarian, Vera