Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots Quotes

“Alex hoped Daniel appreciated exactly how bold and daring he was being in going to the grocery store on Tuesday rather than Saturday. It was like fucking Mardi Gras over here, everything upside down.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

“He didn’t know if it was some innate Eastern European expectation that leaders were up to no good, but he found that he was more surprised that Americans were surprised by all this than he was by the actual conspiracy that was being revealed in hearings and interviews. There was something so optimistic about expecting people to follow the rules, just like there was something optimistic about expecting your government not to send you off to be killed in a war for no good reason.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

“Alex snorted. He had heard about more gay sisters-in-law (and cousins, therapists, neighbors, and uncles) than he could count. “You know, my aunt is a lesbian,” was apparently shorthand for “I noticed that you seem gay and here’s proof that I’m fine with that.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

“Whenever someone described Alex as being set in his ways, he bristled. He was set in his ways, but that was only because his ways were perfectly fine.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

“Daniel had really hoped his grandmother would be drowsy, or maybe just spontaneously motivated to be civil, but no, she was awake and alert and filled with bright ideas about how to be horrible.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

“if something so derelict had become something good just through the combined effort of a handful of people, then there was hope for everything else.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

“The fact was that similar things had happened to Daniel before—share a bed with someone and there’s a chance you’ll have unwanted or unintended contact—but telling Alex that something was perfectly normal and nothing to worry about had never, not once, succeeded in making him believe that something was normal and nothing to worry about. “Normal” was not a concept that mattered to Aleksander Savchenko in any meaningful way, and that was one of the things Daniel loved best about him as a friend and as—well, as a friend.”
― Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots