Lovely, Dark and Deep Quotes

“I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“So this is life. Love. We spend all this time reaching for each other and mostly we end up hurting each other until it's over.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“The thing about grief is that you have to let yourself feel it. Even the worst parts. Especially the worst parts. Pass through it. Let it pass through you.
It´s your strenght-your humanity-your openness to your feelings. Even when you think you might not come through.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I'm starting to feel a little like I might fly away. Like everyone else has solid lives, and I'm just a particle, passing through.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“The real gift is time. Now. Each other, this night, and the wide, wide moon-silvered sea.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“And that's just it. This is how it is. Always. To pay attention to things. People. It's too easy to fail other people. And the good-byes. You never have the time you think. It brings tears to my eyes. I blink them away.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“You´re not complication.
You´re the only air I can stand to breathe.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I'm lost again, inside myself. Somewhere that's not nowhere. Disoriented. I've let everything go.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“Wren, come back, please come back. Don't disappear again. I want you here. Stay here.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“Something falls inside me. Sinks down deep. I look at my lap. A terrible leaden loneliness. Try to breathe under the weight of it.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“Too many people are expecting me to do things. I don't want to meet anyone's expectations. Be expected. I just want to-be. No explanations necessary. Me. Quiet. Anything more is too risky.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“If you slip far enough out of your life, time picks up. Passes in waves instead of notches. One month rolling by, then another.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“There are points in time when you grow older than your parents. Or come up on them at least. I look at my father, who's shrinking before my eyes, and realize no one will save me. No one can save me.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“How did I not see it? Pain is everywhere. I'm just another sorry story. All these people wearing smiles, dragging themselves around--do they all know already? Do they realize how fast the world can change?”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“Things are changing. Life is like that.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“You're the only air I can stand to breathe.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“Up near the top, the view pierces me so totally I have one of those flash thoughts about tossing myself into the ocean. Surrender to the enormous wildness, the water's churning gray force, the solid rocks. It doesn't seem so scary. The idea. It seems like it could bring a lot of quiet. Endless quiet.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“What I wanted wasn't hidden, it was just messy. Uncertain. In my heart it could have been anything less prescribed, something open, different. Something that got me out into the larger world, watching people, the secrets playing on their faces. Something true. I wanted to see something true. Collect as many stories as my heart could hold.

My stupid heart.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I don't trust anything I think I know now. I guess that's the price of sailing so far away.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“It's like last May I stepped on the wrong stone and slipped into this rotten otherworld. A place where the stakes are higher than you ever knew they could be and people deal with these kinds of things. Accidents. Illness. Death. Loss. Weights I can scarcely carry.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I'm not fit to be in public.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“There's no air in here. There is something seriously wrong with me. I can't figure anything out. I'm too out of control. My heart does something when I'm near him. And it's messing everything up. He's too close. Familiar or something. I'm not getting tangled up in anything again. With anyone. Not like this.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“It's dark out. The sky is crazy, more stars than dark. So many more than I can ever remember seeing.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“It shouldn't be so hard to live without messing up other people.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I feel like I'm being hazed. Life's hazing me. Seeing what I can take.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

“I hate the world. All the fragile people in it. Every one of us.”
― Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep