Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy (2013)

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Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start.

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I leapt eagerly into books. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

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Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

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It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.

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Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

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Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

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What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt. The only reason I'd lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

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We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

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Some things just won't go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

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I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

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But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

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Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

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