"Alice Bliss" Quotes
After her father is deployed to Iraq, a teenage girl navigates family struggles and first love in a coming-of-age story set during wartime.
fiction | 320 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The world was full of Alice Blisses.
Sometimes she wished she could just break, so that someone could put her back together.
We all know that love is bigger than fear.
And there was nothing that Alice could do about the hurricane of her father’s grief.
For every truth she knew, there was an equal and opposite truth.
Alice knew that there was no making up for what her mother had lost.
The world was not fair, and she had to figure out how to live in it.
Alice suspected that love and hate were not opposites, but simply one long continuum.
Life was what happened while you were making other plans.
Alice knew she was capable of love, but she wasn't sure she was capable of hope.
