Elizabeth Brundage > Quotes

“Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws.”
― Elizabeth Brundage, The Doctor's Wife

“Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care.”
― Elizabeth Brundage, Somebody Else's Daughter

“Attraction is composed of desire and danger.”
― Elizabeth Brundage

“Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore.”
― Elizabeth Brundage, Somebody Else's Daughter

“He wanted to dig a hole and put the past inside it and cover it back up again. He didn't know if flowers would grow there or not. He hoped they would.”
― Elizabeth Brundage, Somebody Else's Daughter