"Drowning Ruth" Quotes
Set in rural Wisconsin after World War I, "Drowning Ruth" unravels the dark secrets and complex relationships between two sisters and a niece following a mysterious drowning.
fiction | 368 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.
It's not a question of whether you will love, hurt, dream, and feel. It's a question of how you will love, hurt, dream, and feel.
The idea of living as a separate being from all others is a delusion.
Maybe there is no relief from the pain, but there is a way through it.
You can't change the past, but you can change the story you tell yourself about it.
Grief is what you feel when someone is missing from this world, not from your life. The missing will never go away, but eventually, the hole it makes gets smaller.
Sometimes the people you love are like the anchors of a ship. They hold you steady, they keep you from drifting away. But sometimes they can also weigh you down.
We're all broken, in different ways, in different places. The best we can do is try to fit our pieces together, make something whole out of the mess.
The truth doesn't change, no matter how much we want it to. It's the stories we tell ourselves that change.
Fear is just a feeling, not a fact. It doesn't have to control you.
