The Ghostwriter

by Julie Clark

This is the consequence of speaking out as a woman. We are labeled hysterical, emotional, unreliable, and finally, incompetent.

You can’t protect your characters.”

“Besides, when you can’t hear the words people use to distract you, you focus on what they’re doing instead. The truth lives in people’s actions, their unguarded moments, not in the lies they tell.”

People’s recollections are tinted with their own biases. Their beliefs, layered over the top, sometimes rendering a completely different meaning.

There’s a reason historians rely so heavily on primary sources. Because human memory is flawed.

I’m beginning to realize that once you lie about your past, you wall yourself off from the present.

Very rarely do people like what they find when they go digging into the past.”

“Relationships aren’t transactional.”

Information is power, yes. But it’s also a burden because once you know something, you can’t pretend you don’t.

“I couldn’t bear to watch you age past her. You were a daily reminder of who she never got to become.”