I was fond of him immediately, in the way we feel kinship to those who compliment us.
Marie-Helene BertinoBob Dylan never has his own cigarettes. I thought this was charming at first.
Marie-Helene BertinoThat can be the cruelest part of happiness--its tendency to disguise itself in boredom."
- Marie-Helene Bertino, Safe as Houses, title story
I am bad at asking for help. When you ask a human being for help, there is a chance they will say later, Remember when you asked for help? Can I have five dollars? That goes for medicine, too. I don't like asking help from pills in a bottle. I don't want to be woken up at night by a tab of aspirin asking to borrow five dollars.
Marie-Helene BertinoThey hurt me, these small, brutal kindnesses.
Marie-Helene BertinoMots clés kindess
Marcel was from Louisiana, so for four years Emily had been southern by association. She insisted on Lynchburg Lemonades. She scheduled interviews around the Gators. She championed gentility. Anyone at a dinner party who thought they could tell a joke making fun of the region encountered a faceful of Emily, quick and ferocious as a convert, as a woman who loved a man.
Emily now had no claim to the South. The region and its interests would proceed without her.
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