What I Saw and How I Lied Quotes

Margie held her candy cigarette high in the air, even though ladies don't smoke on the street. We couldn't imagine being wicked enough to smoke on the street, but it was something to shoot for, som...

So I switched on the light to make the magazine picture. The daughter welcoming the dad home, both of them so happy in the picture you could practically smell the pot roast. (4.15)

It was 1947, and the war was over. Now there was music on every radio, and everybody wanted a new car. […] But now our fathers and brothers and cousins were home, and our Victory Gardens had been...

I took the sign that Joe called him Pete, not Peter, as a good sign. I didn't hear then how Joe smacked his lips against the P and made it sound like an insult. I only heard the familiarity. (8.90)

The mood had changed. Why had she invited me today? She'd asked me right after I'd read part of her letter. Was this shopping trip some kind of bribe? So that I wouldn't tell anyone what I'd read?...

And then I forgot everything except the dance. I was able to dance for the first time in my life, really dance, and understand why it worked, one body against another body. (7.59)

You couldn't stop looking at her. She was a knockout. The way she held a cigarette, the way she danced in the kitchen, the way she could make supper with a cocktail in one hand—that was movie sta...

"I never thought about it before. But after you a fight a war, you figure the world is going to get a little more fair, don't you?" (16.23)

Joe had brought it back from the war, and it had real rubies in it. Everything was cheap over in Europe now, he said. You could pick up stuff for practically nothing. The poor folks over there were...

"Jeepers, Evie, you shouldn't worry," Margie said. "After all, a McCafferty wouldn't date a Kalman. She's Jewish." She whispered the last word, as if the statue of Mary would blow a raspberry if sh...