"The Robber Bride" Quotes
Three women are brought together by their shared experience with a manipulative and destructive friend.
fiction | 528 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
She can't stand to be alone. She's like a little girl who's afraid of the dark.
Is it ever possible for one person to know another? We're all islands in the sea of the world.
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.
The past is another country, and besides, the wench is dead.
People are scared of so many things, but the thing they're most scared of is themselves.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
It's worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
I know you're supposed to kind of forget the bad things, but I don't think I want to... It's like I'm being eaten away from the inside.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
