These quotes are taken from all of the short stories featured in the book, Flowers.
"She dreams; dragging herself across the world." (pg. 3)
"A squeeze around the flowers in her hands chokes off three and four and five years of breath." (pg. 6)
"She wonders what one does with memories in a brand-new life." (pg. 8)
"She thinks of the something as a rat trapped, cornered, scurrying to and fro in her head, peering through the windows of her eyes." (pg. 11)
"But I fit into my new surroundings perfectly; like a jar of cold cream melting on a mirrored vanity shelf." (pg. 13)
"I console myself with this thought: My family tends to darken and darken as we get older. One day he may wake up in bed with a complete stranger." (pg. 15)
"Every time he tells me how peculiar.....
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