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Quotes from Children at the Gate — Edward Lewis Wallant

d. 1962 United States

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You gotta take your skin off, you gotta love so much that you go insane.

Children at the Gate (1962)

And then she saw, and was instantly destroyed in a way that would insist upon her living.

Children at the Gate (1962)

All my parents gave me was their fumbly hands: I got their hands inside me to this day.

Children at the Gate (1962)

I love you all, you hear? Nothing turns MY stomach. I'll kiss your gallstones, your ulcers, your cancers, your bleeding piles - and they'll all disappear! I'm the miracle man.

Children at the Gate (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Lewis Wallant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.