Abby Slovin Quotes

#1. The honesty of her plain skin was striking without foundation.

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#2. A thin yellow curtain hung in front of the corner window as boney tree limbs tapped on the glass like an unwelcome visitor. Despite the tiny buds on the trees outside, the branch at this particular window was still bare.

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#3. I used to build things, maintain them and what-not. Sometimes, we'd take things apart completely just to get a good look at the thing on the inside. Then, put it all back together ... Now, I'm lucky if I can build a complete sentence.

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#4. In the distance, they could see the headlights from cars crossing the bridges like fireflies swarming the streets toward home.

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#5. She was now on her way to an old world that was nothing but new to her.

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#6. Fact is just fiction with different storytellers

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#7. She kept public radio on so it sounded like someone was sitting next to her, engaging her in intriguing conversation.

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#8. His words were rare, full conversations with him even rarer, as if Parker were one of his students that he did not want to indulge with conversation after class.

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#9. She inhaled deep breaths filled with salty air and watched the moon cast streaks across the rippling river, unable to determine in which direction it flowed or where it went, but suddenly curious about it for the first time.

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#10. Sometimes you don't get to close one door before another opens. We're not all given that luxury, for closure.

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#11. Parker soon became familiar with the one certainty of sorrow, that ultimately loneliness trumps logic.

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#12. Fear swallowed her, deep and dark as the ocean and she sank into it.

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#13. She stood before him on the porch now, as living, breathing proof that fortune had not tipped itself in his direction all those years ago.

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#14. The likeness she had been searching for was on her face the whole time.

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#15. A girl? Her mother looked at her, curiously, as if the word were unknown to her; ancient and puzzling as an artifact behind a glass encasement.

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#16. She approached the car with a confident stride that implied she had lived on the block her whole life.

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#17. Its roots emerged forcefully from the earth like the Great Wall and extended at least ten feet toward the house, demanding to be seen from beneath the soil.

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#18. She didn't quite know how to translate faces; so she wondered about Jerry, but that's all she could do.

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#19. Her eyes watered until the moment became nothing more than floating colors in front of her watery eyes.

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#20. Sparks fly everywhere, Parker. The world's practically on fire. You need something more solid in your relationships than some silly little spark.

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#21. She did not know why the heat felt so heavy in that house, why all of a sudden it felt so much less like warmth than she remembered.

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#22. Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.

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#23. Tree limbs boasted fresh baby buds and smiled at the brush strokes spread across the sky.

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#24. Her letter bled from word to word, in three sour sentences.

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#25. The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.

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