💬 Quotes

"We have had our share of bad luck, but we have each other, and that is more than many have."

"The years have been full, and they have been hard, but they have brought us to where we are now."

"Obviously, the doctor had never been a thirteen-year-old girl."

"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard our call, still do not hear it, crying out in this whiskey-and-cigarettes-smelling night."

"In the end, we had the pieces of them, but we didn't know who they were."

"Everything in the neighborhood was changing, but the Lisbon house remained a monument to a stricter, older, and more suffocating past."

"Their bodies were like things found on a beach, artifacts of a shipwreck, washed up after the storm had already passed."

"We were the secretaries of their deaths, left to type up the transcripts of their final days."

"People assume that time is a progression, a slope, an incline, but it’s more an expanding sphere. And at the center, the point of origin, is the moment of panic."

"We are the survivors of our own stories."

"I was trying to kill something, but I wasn't sure if it was myself or the part of me that felt so much."

"Crazy is a word people use to describe someone who has stopped following the rules they have agreed to live by."

"Everything is a dream. The world is a dream. A girl is a dream."

"If you look at the sun, you see stars, and if you look at yourself, you see a stranger."

"I deliver death to the innocent, and for the guilty, I have a special, slow justice."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there, and they don't want you back."

"I am the monarch of my own small, contained universe, governed by laws only I can interpret."

"The Wasp Factory doesn't just kill; it gives a meaning to the suffering. It turns chaos into a tally."

"We are all trapped by the gender we are assigned, but I have found a way to exist in the spaces between."

"She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then she had let him go, but he was not the same person."