"What Alice Forgot" Quotes
After a bump on the head, Alice wakes up thinking it's 10 years earlier and she's a different person.
fiction | 476 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It’s like time travel. It’s like I’ve woken up in the future. I’m thirty-nine years old. I’m married to a man I don’t recognize.
I’m a different person, I think. I don’t know if I like this person as much as the old me. I can’t decide. I can’t decide if I should be happy or horrified.
I’m not a good person. But I’m not a bad person, either. Not really. I’m a good person who’s done a bad thing.
It’s okay, Alice. You’re allowed to be happy, you know. Of course you are.
Sometimes I get these moments of clarity. I know exactly what I need to do and how to do it, and then I forget everything. I’m left with this foggy, hazy, crappy feeling that I can’t shake.
It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
There was a long pause while they all thought about it. They all thought about how they used to be, and how they’d changed. It was a bit like waking up from a dream.
I think we’re all a bit mad. Some are just more mad than others.
It’s like a huge weight has been lifted. I feel lighter than air.
She’s just so beautiful. It’s not fair. She’s just so beautiful and I’m not.
