Book of Quotes

Tangerine

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

 - "As usual when Erik appears, the attention switched from me to him."

- "But I can see.  I can see everything.  I can see things that Mom and Dad can't.  Or won't."

- "I've always been afraid of Erik.  Now I get to be afraid of Erik and Arthur."

- "He seems a pretty decent guy, for a football player.  But who knows?  He's bound to change, in one way or another, once he gets caught up inside the Erik Fisher Football Dream."

-"The kid in gray checked out my googles and said, 'You!  It came from Mars!'"

- "The black smoke was pouring from a huge bonfire of trees.  Citrus trees. 'I don't think they can build them.  I don't think those trees have any use other than fruit.'"

- "Lake Windor Downs offers four choices to homebuyers, each named after a British royal family."

- Dad was halfway out the door, and he did not look happy.  He was lecturing Mom."

- "So there I sat […]—Erik Fisher's younger brother, Eclipse Boy, visually impaired and totally incapable of following in his brother's footsteps. "

- "My grandparents are Mom's parents. Dad's parents died when he was young. […] Dad never talks about them. It's like they never existed. Mom doesn't talk much about hers, either."

- "Mom and Dad are at each other's throats arguing about all of this. "

- "What if Erik was the body at the undertaker's now? How would I feel about that? I would feel relieved. I would feel safer."

- "But that's Dad. You're either at the center of his world, or you're nowhere. There is no in-between."But that's Dad. You're either at the center of his world, or you're nowhere. There is no in-between.

- Joey let the sorrow pump out of him […] "I saw Mike lying there. […] I had to do something for him, somehow. Mike always felt better when he got his shoes off […] And that's all I was trying to do." 

- "The four of us got up and went our separate ways—me up to my room. "

- "Luis looked away. Tino was staring at him with reverence, with no trace of the hard-guy face he usually carries around."

- "But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't."

- "Erik was as phony as he needed to be." 

- "But of course [Mom] will never tell me about it. Just like she would never have told Grandmom and Grandpop about hating any of those moves of her childhood."

- "Erik was telling his friends this story: The reason for the Coke-bottle glasses on my eyes was that I had stared at the sun, unprotected, during that eclipse. The story puzzles me then, and it puzzles me now. Puzzled or not, I went right along with the story."