Quotes from Carol Edgarian

Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.

Doesn't everyone have at least two opposing natures warring inside them?

Wednesday, April 18, 1906, we ate roast beef and apricot jam. Pie

She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.

For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.

come at the price of your soul, when you are melancholy more often than not, when you are fierce in a world of feathers and folly, when you're alone in every room you enter, you do not fit in. You never will. I know you.

There's only one thing worth loving, my girl. Freedom. Always I have loved my freedom

he studied the two photographs he carried with him at all times: the first of his wife and children, the second, a portrait of him as a young man, singing on a street corner by his house.

I always thought of my city as a woman. But the house, it turned out, was a woman too. When the quake hit, she groaned. Her timbers strained to hold on to their pins, the pins snapping. And the rocks beneath the house? They had voices too. And if I ever wondered how long it would take for the world to end, I know: forty-five seconds.