Bereft Quotes

“To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“Stories are rarely only stories”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“To feel nothing, to know nothing, to be nothing, to have nothing. No wonder man invented heaven.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“A story is a wondrous invention.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“His smile, he knew, was now lopsided and somewhat sinister, as if one half of him were amused while the other unimpressed by the same joke.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft: a novel

“Like a bizarre spider unaccustomed to its surfeit of appendages, four drunken soldiers lurched arm in arm down the passage.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft: a novel

“She tucked an apostrophe of hair back from her eyes.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft: a novel