Mandy Ashcraft > Quotes

“When nothing around you makes sense, everything is equally threatening.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The utopian candy shell melted away to a hard center of bizarre reality.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“They each raised their glasses from the puddles on the table, and clinked them together in celebration. They weren't sure what they were celebrating, but more than anything it felt like they were celebrating that exact moment in time and all of the incredible events that had to take place for it to have existed in time at all.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“The money he stuffed into the gaping void of family fell limply through to the floor of a mansion he lived in alone.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...from sweaty-palmed anxiety blooms vivid imagination.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He smiled at her, the same smile stapled to the mask of every career politician.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She was angry and humiliated and hurt, but she wasn't belligerently vicious. She was clever.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She was fantastically beautiful, so even though her words sounded like fragile utopian glass that would shatter horrendously on Earth in about five minutes, it sounded nice when she said it.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“It was as if a mad scientist had sold all of his important tools and chemicals at a yard sale, leaving a makeshift laboratory of scrap materials that the neighbors didn't want.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She was an anomaly of her own universe and of his, and represented the collision of everything he'd ever known and everything he'd ever wanted to.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“In order to cope with death, you need the correct punctuation. Not a final period, not a comma as on Aleya, but a chance to fill in the blank--- life, 'dot dot dot'.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...celebrating in a sea of little more than cacti and a billion stars.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Please stop redirecting my calls!" Kelvin screamed into the receiver, the cord wrapped and strangling his left arm and right foot like a boa constrictor that only vaguely understood how it's supposed to catch prey.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“So you're Charity?' he asked, trying to ease the tension. Her current behavior was not fitting of the name; her parents must have had less kidnapping-related ambitions for her.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“They were feeling generously dramatic due to lack of food.”
― Mandy Ashcraft

“His undeniably impressive resume might as well have said he designed an updated swastika for the modern Neo-Nazi, the way brick walls had been put up around his entire field of work.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“He was a powerful man; he had powerful contacts, and two hidden office levels that, although weren't dungeons, could be used for anything his desperate mind set out to do.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“...and yet there was one lump in that freshly raked zen garden: a small woman crying into a fish bowl.”
― Mandy Ashcraft

“It was as if humans' lives didn't end per se, but kind of trailed off with punctuating ellipses. After that third dot it was open-ended, brilliantly poised for anything one could imagine. Earth was warm with potential like that.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“She could've overlooked the level of tackiness if the tackiness was also tactful. Which it was not.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“It was almost beautiful if you didn't think about it ever, at all.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Unlike in the movies, the weather seemed indifferent to his personal predicament and refused dramatic contribution. It was a rather pleasant day, in fact.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“His eyeballs felt as if they'd been removed, dry roasted, salted, and replaced.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“They were a paper chain of distinguished members of society, and when one caught fire, they either severed themselves or they all went up in smoke.”
― Mandy Ashcraft

“Although relocating to a state he imagined he'd not even used in a sentence since grade school was not in his life plan, it had seemed like a glittering offer slid across a table off of which he couldn't afford to eat.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Sorry it took me so long to get back here. I went out front to smoke, and then I saw Angel's truck was unlocked and made myself a burrito with a crushed up fortune cookie inside,' said the only person they knew that would say that, carrying the little grey kitten. He pulled a wet paper fortune out of the beans. 'My burrito says 'Keep your eye on the prize'.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit