Ron Rash, Serena
14 quotes
"A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world"
"She walks in beauty."
"What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood."
"One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children"
"Nothing is but what is now"
"We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't."
"She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)"
"Don't love anything that can be taken away."
"A small profit it better than a big loss"
"Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better"
"It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)"
"I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, and she hadn’t, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you’re swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83)"
"You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick."
"It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start"