Jeanine Cummins

American Dirt : A Novel

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  • Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted3 years ago
    The concrete underfoot has a new sensation of active stillness.
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    The men smile at Luca. They tap him and point out interesting sights as they pass: a mother cow with her calf, a huddle of trees like a rugby scrum, a stark white cross atop a low hill. The men bless themselves when they go by a steeple or a roadside grave. They pray.
  • Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted3 years ago
    Hermana Cecilia’s voice is the most soothing sound Luca has ever heard, a peaceful, uninflected hum of determined protection, so that no matter what words she says, the words Luca hears are You are safe here, you are safe here, you are safe.
  • Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted3 years ago
    all her love of words, at times they’re entirely insufficient.
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    the only time Lydia had ever seen her father cry was when Oscar De La Hoya won the gold medal round at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
  • Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted3 years ago
    we get married, you choose me. I hope you’ll continue to choose me every day.
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    She has to dig nearly to the bottom of it to find a pair of socks. They’re still attached by a plastic barb, which Mami snaps before putting them on. He doesn’t know how she does that. Luca always has to cut them with scissors
  • Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted3 years ago
    truly absurd – that the people around them cannot see plainly what abomination they’ve just endured. It feels as evident to Lydia as if she were carrying a flashing neon sign.
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    that feels impossible to Lydia, that her life could be shattered so completely in less time than it takes for a ring of condensation to evaporate into the atmosphere
  • Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted3 years ago
    There’s a blessing in the moments after terror and before confirmation.
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