Red Glass Quotes

“The glass held the final laugh...”

“Most people seemed to have a hard outer shell that protected them from mean people, insults, bad memories.”

“I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was always a dark, sinister shape lurking just underneath the surface.”

“But the memory changes you, right? It makes you a different person.”

“Death is at your side from the time you’re born, m’hija. You need to be friends with Death. That’s what makes you love Life. And when it’s your time to die, you won’t be scared. Because, m’hija, Death is your friend.”

“He was living proof of one of my worst fears: Your parents really could die and leave you alone in the world.”

“I thought of myself as a free-floating one-celled amoeba, minding my own business.”

″...being an amoeba and became part of the little cluster of cells in this van.”

“I figured if anything happened to Mom, I would be alone on this planet.”

“When I was little, something as small as Mom picking me up ten minutes late threw me into a wild panic.”

“Taste the berries and forget about falling off the cliff”

″...tired of making circles inside a fishbowl, watching life through cloudy glass. Would I ever be Sophie la Fuerte, the strong one, a salmon swimming up waterfalls, leaping over dams?”

“When Mom first announced that her Bosnian war refugee great-aunt was coming to live with us, I’d pictured a skeletal woman in a shawl, deep half-moon shadows beneath haunted eyes.”

“She told me that her body was sacred and shouldn’t be exposed for all eyes to see. I liked the idea of living behind so much fabric. It would be a comfortable feeling.”

“As long as I had water, I could forget about everything, imagine I was the only person on the planet, a stranger dropped into the desert”

“Both halves were there, in the bushes. I saved them as a kind of souvenir. At first, they reminded me that the night wasn’t a dream. As I got older, they reminded me of what mattered in life.”

“Somehow, long ago, my little kid’s brain had pasted together pieces of overheard conversations: When Mom was a teenager, I started making her belly fat.”″

“Pablo looked different, and it took me a moment to figure out how. He had a smile, a smile that showed his teeth, a smile that made his eyes scrunch up. He was making a little high-pitched chipmunk sound. Pablo was laughing.”

“In war, when soldiers come, they take everything. You must bury anything to save it. You must hide your childrens, also.”

“Surrounded by the music, I felt like someone else, riding into unknown territory, some adventurous woman in a movie.”

“I may be old, but I never forget my friends.”