Red Glove Quotes

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“A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.” (Red Glove Quotes)
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“A mother shouldn’t have to threaten her son into wanting to spend time together.”
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“At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of.”
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“Baby,” she says in a harsh whisper, “in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”
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Red Glove

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
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“Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?”
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“Don’t be a hero, live to fight another day.”
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“He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.”
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“I can learn to live with guilt. I don’t care about being good.”
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“I made you believe that you were what I wanted you to become.”
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“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
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“I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.” (Red Glove Quotes)
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“I wonder what the kid I was then would think of the people we are now.”
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“I’m afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”
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“It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.”
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Red Glove

“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”
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“Magic gives you a lot of choices,” Grandad says. “Most of them are bad.”
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“No trouble ever got fixed late at night,” he said. “Midnight is for regrets.”
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“The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.”
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“The truth is messy. It’s raw and uncomfortable. You can’t blame people for preferring lies.”
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“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”
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Red Glove

“You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he’s done, or come to like it too much.”
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Red Glove

“You’re going to get all the things you think you can’t have,” she says quietly, reaching out to rub red lipstick from my cheek. “You just don’t know it yet.”
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