Adele Griffin Quotes

#1. Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

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#2. Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

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#3. Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.

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#4. Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.

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#5. She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

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#6. Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?

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#7. And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

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#8. The fastest journey is achieved on foot

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#9. But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.

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#10. Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?"
"I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

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#11. I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

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#12. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.

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#13. This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

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#14. Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

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#15. It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

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