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“Before she could answer, the waiter sprang at his chance to brush some crumbs from David’s chair. He had been hanging around their table like a vulture, waiting for them to eat the last papadum crumb so he could take away the basket. He eyed the last piece sadly, as if it were the barrier between him and eternal happiness. Ginny grabbed it and shoved it in her mouth. The man looked relieved and took the basket but immediately returned to stare mournfully at their water glasses.” (13 Little Blue Envelopes Quotes)
Maureen Johnson
13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“I like you because you were mad. And you’re pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“I live alone,” Knud said, “and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor’s work. I live the entire history of my country and people.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.”
Maureen Johnson
13 Little Blue Envelopes
“No shoe should be judged by its footprint, for the foot has a print of its own.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Paris seemed to make good on the promise it made in every photograph of it she’d ever seen.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“She didn’t even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that-impossible as it seemed-it was a fox.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It’s a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That’s why we paint.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Sometimes, Gin, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.”
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
“Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.”
Maureen Johnson
13 Little Blue Envelopes
“The package contained a collection of envelopes much like the first. They were all blue. They were all made of heavy paper. Good quality. The kind from one of those boutique paper stores. The front of each envelope was either illustrated in pen and ink or watercolor, and they were bundled together with an overstretched rubber band that had been doubled around them.”
Maureen Johnson
13 Little Blue Envelopes
