“holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things”
“April's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank”
“The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands.”
“You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?”
“I tried to whip some feelings up but the inside of my chest was as hollow as an empty rubbish bin; totally, absolutely dried up, with my poor, tiny heart lying at the bottom like a crushed coke can.”
“Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup”