Leslie Parry Quotes

#1. Undergarments flapped wildly on the fire escapes above, soiled with sweat and blood: private stains, flying high over the city like crests on the flags of a ship.

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#2. There were streets named Mulberry and Orchard and Cherry, streets bright and tart, streets with a color and a taste.

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#3. Her mother's private feelings, she would realize later (with no small amount of shame), were of no real concern to her. She only cared about what her mother gave to her and what she withheld.

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#4. It awoke something in her, to see someone so kind and giving, so full-hearted, and yet so lost, so wretchedly bent on his own destruction. She had left home, ashamed of herself and the fury she'd caused, but now the prospect of love didn't seem like such a dangerous thing at all. He

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#5. Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?

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#6. I've found that here in this city, the lights burn ever brighter, but they cast the darkest shadows I know.

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#7. He kept fighting. If you didn't have something to live for, he reasoned, you'd die. Not just to live for, but to live toward. He thought for a little while he'd live for someone else - a

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#8. Belle could be that way, too. Provoked, she lashed out, and abandoned, she broke. BACKSTAGE

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