Elizabeth Flock > Quotes

“You tell yourself to someone and they steal your soul. That's why I don't talk to anybody.”
― Elizabeth Flock, But Inside I'm Screaming

“Do you ever want to talk away from your life?... Do you ever think this life is not exactly what you had planned? Do you ever crave something, anything that could wake you up?”
― Elizabeth Flock, Sleepwalking in Daylight

“The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.”
― Elizabeth Flock, Sleepwalking in Daylight

“Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that’s life for you. It ain’t sweet.”
― Elizabeth Flock, Me & Emma

“I throw my arms around her without even thinking first, the way I used to with Daddy when he came home from a trip. "Thank you," I say into her waist. Her clothes smell so good. I feel her hand resting on my head, and for that second I feel like nothing could ever go wrong. Not when there's Miss Mary to hug.”
― Elizabeth Flock, Me & Emma

“Some people believe that [when] we choose our friends, we choose the people we care about, because they remind us of ourselves”
― Elizabeth Flock, But Inside I'm Screaming

“I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no perfect, happy endings. Their individual failings...caught up to them and complicated their stories.”
― Elizabeth Flock, The Furies

“but it was too late. Richard spit”
― Elizabeth Flock, What Happened to My Sister: A Novel