R. Parr > Quotes

“Cador followed Jonah’s gaze, his eyes widening. “Oh, pluck me! A handsome human indeed. Just look at the size of him. I could use his toenail clippings as a picket fence.”
― R. Parr, The Pixie Fix

“We busy ourselves with our food for a couple of minutes, then Nick puts his fork down again.
“You know, Troy,” he says, a serious expression on his face. “We should become friends.”
“Why would I want to become friends with a giant prick?” I tease. “I already have one of those.”
Nick’s eyes widen. “You do?” His gaze travels down my torso. “I wouldn’t have picked that. You’re kind of….” here he pauses, no doubt trying to think of a polite euphemism, “short.”
“Well, not everything about me is drawn to scale,” I say, smug as smug.”
― R. Parr, Toy

“Here Teo struck out left, as instructed and soon came upon a large ditch. He stared down at its contents. There were several large mounds that had been covered neatly with dirt, but here and there an animal bone, or a shard of broken pottery, protruded through the soil. It seemed rather sad, Teo thought, that the span of a man’s life could be reduced to piles of refuse, some of which would surely last far longer than the man himself. Yet, it was inspiring too, that a man could live alone and endure, day after day, perhaps for years on end.”
― R. Parr, Star and Fire

“I sit down in the end cubicle and read the dirty limerick that’s scrawled on the inside of the toilet door. Who knew that Nantucket was such a hotbed of vice?”
― R. Parr, Unstable Orbit