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“Yes, sorry, I guess I should have mentioned we were going to a vegetarian restaurant. Do you mind?�� he asked. What could she say? She’d worked at Howard Johnson’s. Her kids used to say if Stouffer’s didn’t make it, they didn’t eat it at their house. “I guess I could have a salad. This is like trying to read a foreign language.�� She kept turning it back and forth, hoping a page with the word “hamburger�� would appear if”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Alice's Summertime Adventure

“What about prayers?�� she said. ‘They mean nothing. It’s a ploy to bring yourself peace when you can’t do anything else.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton

“Everything had the potential, she guessed. Propping”
― Suzanne Jenkins, In Memoriam

“It really was my grandmother’s,�� he said, deadpan. “No kidding?�� she responded, not caring if it belonged to Hitler, just wanting to get off the damn bike.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Alice's Summertime Adventure

“This isn’t a dress rehearsal, you know. Stop wasting your life.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton

“She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a foreign language, their food was different, and she looked different from the children she went to school with in Corktown.”
― Suzanne Jenkins

“It was so easy to become who others thought you should be.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton

“After pleasantries, they made”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Pam of Babylon

“Jack Smith was thinking, I am the luckiest man alive.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Pam of Babylon

“What about our prayers to the earth?�� I said. “My mother snickered. ‘What about prayers?�� she said. ‘They mean nothing. It’s a ploy to bring yourself peace when you can’t do anything else.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton

“Cutting down trees for Christmas was a waste of resources, but it was more than that. The cut stump looked like an amputation, resinous sap running out of its pores as blood ran from a wound, her eyes played tricks on her again and the sap turned red, the gelatinous clots pooling on the snow-covered sidewalk below.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Gracefully, Like a Living Thing: The Sequel to The Savant of Chelsea

“but to Alexandra they were dying before her eyes, the branches sagging, the needles struggling to stay in place; if she listened carefully enough, she might hear their anguish.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Gracefully, Like a Living Thing: The Sequel to The Savant of Chelsea

“ten-year-old Buick. I don’t have a license; I don’t even”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton

“motive. That the class was taught by an adjunct”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Pam of Babylon Boxed Set

“sometimes, running to a fresh start was the only way to heal, so she didn’t push.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Bayou Cottage

“See, the problem is that once you let the light shine, you can’t control what is illuminated. Either everything is kept in the dark or it’s all brought out in the light.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton