"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" Quotes
A family's tumultuous relationships are explored through the lens of a restaurant in this poignant tale.
fiction | 322 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
Family life, the bad and the good, is wonky geometry, repaired by time and compromise and understanding.
Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my mother with a kitchen knife, I was 14 years old, but at that moment, I could have been any age.
In stories, mothers can undo mistakes. In life, they can't.
To live without love was to be lonely, unwanted. That was the saddest thing she had ever seen.
He had never in his life been treated like something worth reaching for; he just saw all the ways you could be treated like you were not.
People don't notice the lives of the ones they don't love.
He had spent his life being better than anyone else at whatever he did, and he was still only fumbling blindly from one piece of work to the next, like a dog in a strange house.
They were a party of others, and for the first time, she was discovering that if she didn't look hard at other people, they looked hard at her.
Victory had been wrongfully deprived, she thought, and she had stood aside too long. She had been diminished by comparison—and she had accepted it.
People are like young lions: they roar, and they snarl. They fight over scraps and leftovers.
