I'll Give You The Sun Mortality Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

I lie down, rest my head on Oscar's pillow, and breathe in the faint scent of him: peppery, sunny, wonderful. Oscar does not smell like death. (7.775-4.776)

Not smelling like death is evidently what passes for a compliment in the weird world of Jude Sweetwine.

Quote #8

No one tells you how gone gone really is, or how long it lasts. (6.17)

It's been two years since Jude's mom died, and she's still trying to wrap her head around the enormity of that loss.

Quote #9

It's not my fault that a car with my mother in it lost control no matter what I did with this jerkoff beforehand. I didn't bring the bad luck on us, no matter how much it felt that way. (6.176)

Jude no longer associates sex with death. Hey, that's progress.