Anna Lee Huber > Anna's Quotes

“I could already feel the seeds of attachment beginning to grow inside me, stirring something within my breast. It was comforting, and yet somehow terrifying all at once. And I wasn't sure I wanted to name this feeling or examine it too closely. Not now. Not yet. Maybe not ever.”
― Anna Lee Huber, This Side of Murder

“I know what kind of work you really did during the war. I know the secrets you hide. Why shouldn't I also know your husband's?”
― Anna Lee Huber, This Side of Murder

“But I knew all to well how war could make people do things they would never have done otherwise. Terrible things. Things that did not vanish with the rising of the sun, or the coming of peace.”
― Anna Lee Huber, This Side of Murder

“I settled for soothing as many of his hurts as I could with my love. Perhaps if I kissed every square inch of him, if I whispered enough words of love into his skin as I held him as close as humanly possible, it would be a start.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Brush with Shadows

“But it is a long game, yes? And sometimes one cannot see the ramifications of one's actions until it's too late.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Treacherous Is the Night

“We had both lost whatever pretensions we'd clung to during the long years of the war. We'd both witnessed the best and worst of man. We'd both roughed it, sleeping in such lowly hovels as trench dugouts and barns. Perhaps it was in these unassuming spaces that we were truly ourselves.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Treacherous Is the Night

“War makes the irrational rational,' I replied simply and then sighed. 'I know this isn't war anymore, but...'
His gaze met mine. 'But it sure bloody feels like it.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Treacherous Is the Night