Best Of Hannah Levene's "Greasepaint"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Greasepaint by Hannah Levene. At sixteen Frankie and Lillian were alive for one another. “Let’s not say we’ll die for anything” Lily falls into Frankie’s arms “for the cause or for each other, let’s say we will live for it. For it all and most of all for each other.” p.35 Laur thought the older you got the soppier you got, your roots were deeper in the earth and they were soaking up more than the kids whose roots were just in the dust, dug in so shallow it barely kept them standing. The newer kids were floppier, they were bendier like metal heated up and the older guys with their roots down deep got all soppy but they wouldn’t budge, soft and solid at the same time. Soft in all the wrong places, Laur thought. Marg was like a gorilla, yeah, just like a gorilla the way that seeing a picture of a gorilla makes you wanna cry because of the way it looks just like you and just like an animal all at the same time. p.56-57