Top 33 Rose Christo Quotes
#1. I picked up my flute and smiled, eyebrows dancing. "Why don't you show her your straight dance?"
"Is there a gay dance, too?" Mickey asked.
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#2. I don't understand the idea that people shouldn't care about each other just because they're strangers. I think that kind of mindset is responsible for most of the world's problems.
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#3. Nor had I realized until that moment how much of a group project it was to grow up.
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#5. You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.
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#6. Hope for the best," I said. "Prepare for the worst.
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#7. You're not ugly. Sky, you're
You know when you first came to the reservation, and everyone was like, 'Holy crap, it's a white boy'? My thoughts were more like, 'Holy crap, why can't I stop looking at him?' And it wasn't because you were ugly.
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#8. I don't know what you're talking about. I just like animals," Rafael said. "So does Sky, except he's kind of a hippie soulbonder about it.
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#9. He swore loudly, confused. I won't repeat the word here. I'm a gentleman.
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#10. We'd better go," I say. "It's time for you to make Hmong babies."
Toua pulls free from my grasp. "You little
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"Go. Further the great Flower Clan. The mountainous homeland will sing from your victorious loins."
"You're disgusting!
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#11. You ought to sue."
"I don't know how to sew. I tried it once and I almost put my eye out."
If there is one thing Sahara Soto and Kerry Thompson have in common, it's their complete idiocy. In the girl's case, it's endearing.
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#12. I was shaking when our lips parted and he leaned his forehead against mine, his fingers carding through my hair, my hands on his face.
"I won't let them," Rafael said. "I won't let anyone take you away. I'll protect you. I'll always protect you. I don't care how. I just will.
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#13. Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.
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#14. Coldness settles again in my stomach. I do not want a nice Hmong girl. I want a nice Egyptian boy who teaches me about colors and makes me appreciate poetry. I want the nice Egyptian boy who stops in the middle of the day to say Thank you, God. For everything.
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#15. I don't like this, Toua," I go on. "We're like birds that have flown a very long way from their nest. We're like nettles in a garden full of hops. We shouldn't have to hide who we are. Our faces are unseen.
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#16. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.
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#17. It struck me as kind of crazy, kind of amazing, that one person could make me feel so serene just by being.
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#18. It's not blood that makes us who we are," Dad said. "It's family. And it's not blood that makes us family. It's love.
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#19. I don't know how your dad could have left you alone, anyway," Rafael said indignantly. "It's obvious you're the coolest person on the planet.
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#20. Children are remarkably cruel in their candor. In their cruelty, they are innocent
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#21. I kissed him like he was air and I couldn't breathe.
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#22. I want you. I want you so much. I think I want you more than anything and that scares me, sometimes.
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#23. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.
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#24. This is how you know somebody loves you. When you can't tie your own shoes and they don't mind tying them for you.
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#25. We'd held each other before, on lazy summer days, between private kisses and languid touches, but never anything that I would have considered a true hug: selfless support not instigated by desire, comfort for comfort's sake. This was different.
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#26. Relieved and overjoyed, I felt kind of like a five-year-old, too. I felt like a lamb that's found its way home again, or the small child each of us secretly hides at heart.
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#27. You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be.
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#28. Each person is just an imprint of the many people who have crossed paths with us over the years, some more than others. Most of us never think to say thank you. I know I never had.
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#29. Maybe things don't really happen for a reason," Kenneth said. "Or maybe they do. But I think it doesn't matter either way. Because we can only experience those things as humans. And because we're humans, we're going to think they mean one thing, even if they mean another.
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#30. What?" he said. "You let me draw all over your arm in permanent ink, but I hand you a vegetable and you chicken out?
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#31. If we can die at any minute," I said, "why are you wasting your life dreading it? Why don't you just live while you have the chance?
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#32. Some dumbass outside the reserve thinks you're wearing a butterfly on your arm, you'll get your ass kicked, Rafael said.
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#33. But then even if my atoms were a sin, so what? It was like Dad had said. As far as sins went, the sin of loving another human being made for a pretty damn excellent one.
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