Gabrielle Hamilton Quotes

#1. I was gazing at that full bushel of apples when she made her stunning, preposterous announcement, that I have possibly never recovered from. 'Jim it's over, and the kids and I have decided you should go.

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#2. Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. -Jo Carson

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#3. Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted ...

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#4. So what is there to make of the simplistic thing I've come to utter in explanation, which is so drab, so monochromatic, so water on top of ice even though it's the most direct, most distilled path from my heart to my mouth: I feel better without her.

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#5. I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

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#6. I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

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#7. There are two things you should never do with your father: learn how to drive and learn how to kill a chicken.

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#8. I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.

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#9. For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought warm and grateful thoughts about her. She instilled in us nothing but a total and unconditional pleasure in food and eating.

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#10. My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

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#11. This is the crepe.
This is the cider.
This is how we live and eat.

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#12. People who know me well understand fully what I am saying when I suggest that I am working an appetite and that we'd best be making our move. This means it is time to hit the road before my blood sugar-what's left of it-crashes to that point where I'm going to ruin your fucking day.

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#13. My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

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#14. Each housing development has a "country" name - Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle crossing, Deer Path, which has an unkind way of invoking and recalling the very things demolished when building.

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#15. [I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

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#16. Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

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#17. You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

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#18. I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

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#19. That is my favorite kind of integrated person. Some of each thing and not too much of any one.

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#20. How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

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#21. As soon as I saw the three-bin stainless steel pot sink, exactly like ours, I felt instantly at home and fell into peeling potatoes and scraping plates for the dishwasher like it was my own skin. And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start.

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