Sapphire Quotes

• Depression is anger turned inward.

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  Inward

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• But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

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  Trying, Details, Hung

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• Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.

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  Baby, Love You, Dumb

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• I changed the past by walking back into it.

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  Past, Changed, Walking

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• I know you are, but you gotta push

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  Knows

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• I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

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  Crazy, Writing, Rivers

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

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  Angel, Blades, Grass

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

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  Hate, Years, Daddy

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all kind who love me. How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy kknow me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. Must be what they already had in they pocket.

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  Love, Girl, Hate

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• Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.

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  Heart, Museums, Blue

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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