Sloane Crosley Quotes About Parents

• Llamé a mi madre inmediatamente para informarle de que era una mala madre. "No puedo creer que nos dejaras ver esto. Cenamos delante de esto". "Todos vieron Twin Peaks", fue su respuesta. "Entonces, si todos saltaran del puente de Brooklyn, ¿tú también lo harías?" "No seas tonta", se rió, "claro que lo haría, cariño. No quedaría nadie en el planeta. Sería un lugar muy solitario.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Lonely, Believe

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.90, Portobello Books

• The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Easter, Children

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.106, Portobello Books

• Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Home, Sleep

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