23 Quotes by Kelly Braffet

All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

Death, Randa thought, elevated people.

The store was filled with hollow-eyed people standing in line: at the sandwich counter, at the soda fountain, at the register. All of them waiting, waiting, their hands full of candy, chips, cups of coffee, money. It was like purgatory, with snacks. Not just the customers; the employees, too. They worked the registers, squirted ketchup on hot dogs, piled limp lettuce onto flaccid lunch meat and waited for it to be over, waited until they could go home.

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that’s beautiful.

You couldn’t talk about the way things should be in somebody else’s family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn’t seen. Caro.

Miranda rolls her eyes. “Passing over,” she says. “That’s nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?

Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn’t turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.