18 quotes found
“Nothing is ever enough.”
“Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.”
“Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.”
“Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.”
“Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.”
“No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?”
“She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I...”
“This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm livi...”
“When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.”
“Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.”
“I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somew...”
“I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going a...”
“Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.”
“My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitche...”
“Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.”
“But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.”
“But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.”
“Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.”
