What Happened to Sophie Wilder Quotes

“There was something beautiful and timeless to her about a hardback without its jacket, a book that could be known in no way except by reading it.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

“Perhaps the body was not a cage that held the soul, but a hand that gripped it like a cane, appearing to guide it, to command it, but all the while dependent upon it, gripping it all the tighter the more that it needed it, finally letting it go.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

“In truth we were quickly reaching--had likely enough already reached--the age where it no longer made sense to talk about "promise." It was around this time that I remarked to Max that no matter what we now achieved no one would say, "He's so young." Precocity had passed us by.
"After twenty-eight," I sad sadly, "you're judged on your merits."
"Unless one of us dies," Max corrected me. "Then they'll all say, 'He was so young.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

“Looking at the book’s cover, she remembered how it had seemed to them that their lives were intertwined irrevocably no matter what else happened, like the paths of two characters in a novel.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

“This is fairly heavy-duty stuff I’m giving you,” the doctor said as he handed Sophie two prescription sheets. “One is for pain and the other is to help him sleep. Read all the directions and administer them carefully.” “And these will make it better?” “Not entirely. So long as he’s alive, he’s going to be suffering.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

“I miss that about those days—the freedom to want; the belief that our desires could never disappoint us, so long as we remained loyal to them; the sense that we could choose our fate, as though the absence of choice weren’t exactly what made it fate.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder