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> [“When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect. Everybody does apples and birds and cats, he said, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/when-his-father-asked-why-a-wasn-t-apple-or-b-wasn-t-bird-or-c-wasn-t/)

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## More by C.S. Richardson

> [“Here was the place I usually found myself in, Grenelle replied. It wouldn't take long to lose its excitement. There was the place over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/here-was-the-place-i-usually-found-myself-in-grenelle-replied-it/)

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> [“For weeks Octavio returned to the shelter of the trees. The woman would appear as the sun reached midday. She would walk to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/for-weeks-octavio-returned-to-the-shelter-of-the-trees-the-woman/)

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> [“With the proper amount of squint.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/with-the-proper-amount-of-squint/)

[C.S. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-richardson/)

> [“He believed women to be quantifiably wiser than men. He was neither a breast nor a leg nor an ass man; hair could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/he-believed-women-to-be-quantifiably-wiser-than-men-he-was-neither-a/)

[C.S. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-richardson/)

> [“Migliaia di parole le svolazzavano in testa, ma non riusciva a farne atterrare sulla pagina nemmeno una.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/migliaia-di-parole-le-svolazzavano-in-testa-ma-non-riusciva-a-farne/)

[C.S. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-richardson/)

> [“But times, as are their custom, had changed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/but-times-as-are-their-custom-had-changed/)

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> [“...painted by a troubled young man, Mrs. Zephyr was saying... cut off part of his own ear... Ambrose went back to looking. What he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/painted-by-a-troubled-young-man-mrs-zephyr-was-saying-cut-off-part-of/)

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> [“A man can see a hundred women, lust for a thousand more, but it is one scent that will open his eyes and turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/a-man-can-see-a-hundred-women-lust-for-a-thousand-more-but-it-is-one/)

[C.S. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-richardson/)

> [“When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/when-his-father-asked-why-a-wasn-t-apple-or-b-wasn-t-bird-or-c-wasn-t/)

[C.S. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-richardson/)

> [“In the face of all reason she was interested in him as he was. Not as he wished he was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/in-the-face-of-all-reason-she-was-interested-in-him-as-he-was-not-as/)

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> [“The problem is that you are too much in love. You are here because your parents mentioned your name to someone who mentioned your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/the-problem-is-that-you-are-too-much-in-love-you-are-here-because/)

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> [“Le aveva detto che era stato lui a insegnare a un nipote fastidiosamente curioso a leggere i sottotitoli della vita.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/le-aveva-detto-che-era-stato-lui-a-insegnare-a-un-nipote/)

[C.S. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-richardson/)

> [“This is now, Zipper said, as she picked up a small stone and slid it in her pocket.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/this-is-now-zipper-said-as-she-picked-up-a-small-stone-and-slid-it-in/)

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> [“This was not her Ambrose, she thought at first. But then, apparently, it was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/this-was-not-her-ambrose-she-thought-at-first-but-then-apparently-it/)

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> [“He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-richardson/he-ached-for-creation-for-life-to-somehow-rise-from-the-drawings-in/)

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