Dearly, Beloved Quotes

“I love you, Nora. I will think you beautiful when I have no eyes left to see. I will remember your voice when my ears go. You can’t hold on to me forever, but I will hold on to you until I am nothing but dirt.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“You're a zombie. If you're not missing body parts, you're doing it wrong!”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“What might not be there are the chances you have right now. If you can hold on another hour, another day - if you can live one more good, honorable minute - those are the victories. And they open up the whole world.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“I know I won’t be there for every part of your life, but I’d like you to be there for every part of mine. I do.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“Nora was the only thing that made sense. She was the only unchanging thing in my universe. She was my lodestar. No matter which way my emotions and circumstances and the impulses of my dead, dying, trying body pulled me, no matter how many mistakes I made, she was always true north. Sometimes I’d side with the dead, sometimes with the living, but always with her.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“I’m here for every bit of your life. The bad parts, the scary parts. And I vow to do all you ask of me that is fair … even at the end.” I knew I didn’t have to elaborate; I could see that he’d gotten it, and that it moved him. "I do.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“Nora, I just don't want you to become so obsessed with the present that you can't see the future.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“I held up a book, one Renfield had grabbed from my bedside table in his haste to pack for me. I’d found it in the bottom of my valise, one of the first things he threw in. Underwear and books—the fellow clearly had his priorities straight.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“Did you really ever think of me when you were kidnapped? Because I look at all the things you went through, and my first instinct is to shield you from my problems—but sometimes you act like nothing happened to you at all.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“Pamela clearly saw how torn I was. Her eyes broadcast and somehow amplified every argument her mouth could have made if she let it. It worked. “Do you want me to stay here, too?” I asked her, feeling my shoulders rising. Pam nodded, guilt creasing her features. “Yes,” she said. She might have felt guilty, but she sounded relieved. “Stay here with me.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“The girl was a walking garden. Flowers and vines had sprouted from within her very flesh, and were looped through hundreds of buttonholes and slits made in her shabby maroon gown for their passage. Once outside they were wrapped around her limbs and waist. The otherwise baggy dress was thus almost grafted to her, stems and thorns pinning the excess material to her body.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“The girl was a walking garden. Flowers and vines had sprouted from within her very flesh, and were looped through hundreds of buttonholes and slits made in”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved

“Besides, Pamma, not even the ravenous dead can stand between you and me.”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Beloved