Sarai Walker > Sarai's Quotes

“I knew the relationship she’d had with Daphne was forbidden, but it hadn’t occurred to me that most women like Veronica married eventually. Daphne wouldn’t have, but Veronica, I could see, was different. She was more willing to wear a mask.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Picture taking off in an airplane from a city where the weather is too bleak to bear. The airplane climbs and climbs and finally breaks through the clouds where there’s nothing but light and blue sky. That’s my life with Sylvia, she said.”
― Sarai Walker , The Cherry Robbers

“Syvia Wren is a ghost ...What a terrible thing to be a ghost while still alive.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“It’s easier to say that women like my mother are crazy. Then you don’t have to listen to them. And so maybe in a way she became crazy. Maybe she could communicate only by screaming.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Most children can’t imagine their mothers having a life before them, but for my sisters and me, it was the opposite. The wedding day was always the end of her story. We were the epilogue.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“This story is jagged, could cut a deep wound. It isn’t a story I can tell with a thread and a needle, stitching in clean lines. It’s shards or nothing.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers