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Description
I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“And Violet? Who took in the homely one-armed gal? Only the man who was to become her world, her breath, her reason for being, her light, her hope, her wide-opened and multicolored everything. It sure made a person believe in bus travel.”
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“Of course you don't get to be my age without learning that "Why?" is the million-dollar question - the who-what-where-when-and-how questions reporters try to answer are a piece of cake compared to the why. If you're able to explain the why, you're able to explain everything, and when's the last time you were that smart?”
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“"Didn't you guys hear?" Violet asked. "There's a war going on." Kjel shook his head. "Always worrying about the details."”
First Sentence
ON HER SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, VIOLET MATHERS NEARLY BLED TO death in a thread factory.
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- Lorna Landvik (Author)
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