Midnight on Beacon Street Quotes

“Life is going to happen whether you’re scared or not. So you might as well live it.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Only, she’s not laughing. Not curling up into a ball. There are no closing credits. No sequels. Because she’s not a movie heroine. She’s flesh and blood and bone. And when the sun comes up, she’ll still feel like hell.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Experience and trauma cannot be coaxed, threatened, thrown out. They’re more complicated than that. They imprint themselves on the brain. Scrawled across the soul in memory.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Peeking out the beige-brown blinds, she spots the tiniest sliver of a moon hanging in the sky. As if someone had come and cut out the night, exposing the white, bruised underbelly of the universe. There are few things she knows to be as beautifully, hauntingly quiet as a night sky.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Cheap thrills are the only kind of thrills that don’t turn her into a hyperventilating disaster. That’s what happens when it’s life, not some movie, keeping you up at night.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Not that it disappears entirely. Panic is like the clingstone pit of a plum nestled in her stomach—her very core. She’d have to gut her own insides to shake it loose. The best she can do is manage it, and she’s rather good at managing it. Pretending to manage it. She wonders if this makes her an excellent liar.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street