Lawana Blackwell Quotes

“It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.”

“Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”

“By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales.”

“I grasped the mirror to look closer at the strange girl in the reflection. Yes, I could see some similarities. The shape of the face was the same, but with all the changes it looked unearthly. The reflection was beautiful ... extremely beautiful--small, pink lips ... pale and glowing skin ... fine white hair. But I couldn't stop focusing on the eyes. The bottomless blue was shocking in the midst of white. She could have competed against Lydia. No, she would have blown Lydia out of the water.”

“The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...”

“The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting.”

“The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.”

“Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.”

“If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.”

“Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.”