Haven Kimmel Quotes

• I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.

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  Sports, Passion, Athlete

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.127, Broadway Books

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• I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

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  Mother, Way, Get Up

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.46, Broadway Books

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• Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

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  Ruins, Phantoms, Infinity

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.35, Anchor

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• Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard.

  Haven Kimmel

  Duro

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• I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.

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  Niños, Creer, Gente

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• My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

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  Real, Hair, Looks

  Haven Kimmel (2007). “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.

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  Mother, Size, Fats

  Haven Kimmel (2007). “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

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  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

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  Mom, Drinking, Book

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• ¿Qué tipo de buenas acciones? ¿Como las Girl Scouts? Porque me echaron de las Brownies y no me van a dar otra oportunidad para mantenerme vestida en el campamento.

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  Girl, Kind Deeds, Clothes

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.193, Broadway Books

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• Hacían mucha limpieza en su casa, lo que yo consideraba un signo de paternidad inmoral. El trabajo de los padres, tal y como yo lo veía, consistía en ver la televisión e intervenir en la vida de un niño solo cuando era absolutamente necesario, como en caso de tornado o de posible secuestro.

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  Jobs, Children, House

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.

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  Dream, Sorry, Love Is

  Haven Kimmel (2007). “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

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  Mother, Jesus, Animal

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

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  Thinking About You, Thinking, People

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• ...esperó hasta que ella y mi abuelo Anthel acababan de llegar de su luna de miel, y entonces se sentó con él y le dijo lo siguiente: "Cariño, sé que te gusta tomar una copa, y eso está bien, pero te advierto que no soy tu criada ni tu saco de boxeo, y si alguna vez me levantas la mano será mejor que me mates. Porque si no, esperaré a que te duermas, te coseré a la cama y te mataré a golpes con una sartén". Hasta que murió, me han dicho, mi abuelo fue un hombre amable.

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  Home, Men, Hands

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• En la pared junto a la mesa, junto a los bollos que proporcionaban a cada mesa su propio círculo de luz, había citas sobre la lectura, su favorita de las cuales era de Kafka: "Un libro debe ser el hacha para el mar helado que llevamos dentro".

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  Wall, Book, Reading

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor

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• Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.

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  Dad, Men, Lazy Man

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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