# Quote — Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

> It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.

- Author: [Truman Capote](https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote.md)
- Book: [Other Voices, Other Rooms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms/it-seemed-odd

## More from this book

> She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the garden's edge, as though he'd forgotten something, he stopped and looked back at the bloomless, descending blue, at the boy he had left behind.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms/she-beckoned-to-him.md)

> But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms/but-my-dear.md)

> The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/truman-capote/other-voices-other-rooms/the-true-beloveds.md)