Yannick Murphy Quotes

#1. She looks like what fishermen don't want after hours spent cutting debris out of their nets.

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#2. Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too.

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#3. I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift.

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#4. My mother still thinks of things to do for him. Light church candles, name a star, send money to somewhere.

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#5. You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

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#6. But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds.

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#7. You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

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#8. Get the moon to phase with you. The tide to lap at your door. Call it Rose or Aunty, but never what it is.

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#9. If caught wearing white and you stain, stand and spread out your skirt, let the boys read into it shapes like blots of ink.

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