I'll Give You The Sun Quotes

The assignment was to do another self-portrait. I went abstract, as in: blob. Degas had dancers, I have blobs. Broken, glued-together blobs. (2.10)

I wouldn't jump on Dad's train even if Michelangelo were on it. He and I don't get on, though he tends to forget. I never forget. (1.75)

I don't worry when I blow off Jude that night and every single night that follows. I don't worry when she comes home and finds Brian and the hornets on the deck….I don't worry that night when she...

Then just maybe she'll forgive me. I don't realize Sandy's been talking, oblivious of the music swelling, of the mother-daughter reconciliation that's occurring in my head. (2.102-2.103)

Jude can't stop missing Grandma. She hardly left her bedside at the end. When Mom found them that final morning, one asleep, one dead, they were holding hands. (1.71)

The next night at dinner, Mom announces that Grandma Sweetwine joined her for a ride in the car that afternoon with a message for Jude and me. Only, Grandma's dead. (1.47-1.48)

I went around from painting to painting asking each to eat me and each did. How my skin fit the whole time, didn't once bunch up at my ankles or squeeze my head into a pin. (1.150)

Something happened to him, Sandy had said. No one knows what the deal is. (2.204)