"The Lace Reader" Quotes
A woman from a family of Salem lace readers returns to her hometown to confront her past and unravel the mysteries surrounding her family.
fiction | 353 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Some secrets have a way of making themselves known, sometimes you just need to know where to look.
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the right livery, passes through more easily.
Finding out the truth is like finding something on the bottom of the ocean. It's always murky down there. Nothing's ever clear.
People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves.
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
No one is an island. But if you feel like one, that's not good. It's healthy to have company.
The best secrets are the most twisted.
Words are powerful. Be careful the ones you string together.
Grief is a waiting room with broken chairs, and a pile of old magazines.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
