Dot Hutchison Quotes

#1. At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was.

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#2. The techs tell him the girl on the other side of the glass hasn't said a word since they brought her in. It doesn't surprise him at first, not with the traumas she's been through, but watching her now from behind the one-way mirror, he starts

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#3. and I thought how fucking unfair it was that he made us butterflies, of all things. Real butterflies could fly away, out of reach. The Gardener's Butterflies could only ever fall, and that but rarely.

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#4. It was sick and wrong and profoundly twisted, and yet somehow it made us feel a lot better.

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#5. The carousel's over now," he tells her quietly. "This time your family is waiting for you.

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#6. but sometimes you just need that visceral affirmation that the people you love are all right, that they're just there in front of you. Close enough to touch.

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#7. Cowardice may be our natural state but it's still a choice.

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#8. When the day came for me to leave, I sat on my front step with three suitcases, two boxes, and a teddy bear, the grand total of everything I owned. Neither of my parents was home.

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#9. When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.

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#10. No, I'm engaging in a discussion about perspective and moral relativity.

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#11. Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.

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#12. But my wings couldn't move and I couldn't fly, and I couldn't even cry.

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#13. I'm not sure I know how to recognize a good thing anymore.

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#14. Get away from me, you sick fuck!"
"I'm not the one who kidnapped you, so save it. Either you want the water and aspirin or you can eat shit and die, your choice."
Lyonette groaned. "Maya.

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#15. Some people stay broken, others put themselves back together with all the sharp bits showing? He'd

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#16. Like beauty, desperation and fear were as common as breathing.

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#17. There is very little uglier than plowed snow. The roads are clear, though, and all the sidewalks are tinted blue from the salt. It feels like walking over the remnants of a Smurf slaughter.

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#18. There are dead girls to mourn, and living girls who will struggle for years to adjust to life outside the Garden, if they even can. He still counts this as a good day.

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#19. Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.

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#20. Unless the Gardener was visiting you, darkness in the Garden was the closest we got to truth.

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#21. Things seem more obvious behind the camera. Like the way Corgi keeps one eye on the game and the other on Happy. The way Yelp's hands are shaking and his eyes are shadowed, and the way Jorge watches him without seeming

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#22. There is nothing resting about that bitch face.

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#23. Sadness and grief aren't the same thing. It's why they have different words. Maybe it's a subtle distinction, but we don't keep a word in a language if it doesn't still have a purpose of its own. Synonyms are never exact things.

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