29 quotes found
“Nothing is ever certain.”
“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”
“There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.”
“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.”
“I was like I was in science class: I was curious.”
“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to s...”
“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
“He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.”
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
“There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closu...”
“What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child”
“In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of coming to stay.' My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his he...”
“That night my mother had what she considered a wonderful dream. She dreamed of the country of India, where she had never been. There were orange traffic cones and beautiful lapis lazuli insects wit...”
“This little girl's grown up by now," she said.Almost.Not quite.I wish you all a long and happy life.”
“Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my fourteen years on Earth: Abigail Suzanne. Little Susie to me. Samuel placed Susie...”
“He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasnt something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day s...”
“We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelle...”
“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
“She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one ...”
