Chevy in the Hole Quotes

“You know what I believe?” Monae said, and he wasn’t sure he did. “I think you decide on someone and somewhere and that devotion is the sense it all makes. You choose someone and you try your best for them. I’ll take it if there’s more, but that’s enough for me. That’s the way I love you. That’s the way I love this place.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

“Serenity is what we get when we quit hoping for a better past.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

“They’d been raised on Flint Public Library books and Joni Mitchell cassettes by an agnostic mother. They were goodish-looking, prone to solitude, and considered themselves too clever for their blue-collar lives. They weren’t heaven people.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

“She was still in the city, her father’s house and her stupid raisins a few miles away, but there was no one opening a front door and flicking on the television, no headlights flashing through the dark on someone’s drive home. It felt like the Flint the newspapers projected someday, when there was no one left in the city but her, canning vegetables for the winter, catching the monstrous carp that finned through the submerged cars in the Flint River. Alone in the city her father had left her.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

“There were more than fourteen thousand vacant lots in Flint—the highest vacancy rate of any city in the United States.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole