Lies a River Deep Quotes

“The passing years often rob people of the truth. But then again, those passing years also allow people to recreate the truth.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“He would ask her, of course, and they would honeymoon at the Canary Inn, but that particular weekend wouldn’t be about forever, not just yet. It would be about the discovery Bessie made, about love, how it boomerangs toward you on quiet feet and tugs softly, never raging or insisting on anything other than recognition, and an unencumbered path of return.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“The young should only know where they’re headed”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“The devil is a gentleman in disguise, Bessie.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“She didn’t want to go to that place, and she had to force herself not to, but it was standing between she and her father’s memory; to keep him
close she’d have to allow the ache”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Summer was a gift bestowed upon the
survivors of winter’s wrath, even when the wind lay still and burning fire wood scented the air, it was always the promise of summer following, the awaited favorite season, the hope of it and the joy, the green grass smell of it, the free barefoot days of it that beckoned the winter weary forward.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Air hung heavy like wet clothes caught flapping in the rain made it hard to breathe.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“It was stark around her, something sad
about winter and its naked limbs, she thought, its colorless indifference, the boredom of its lackluster stillness.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“She continued walking, never revealing her disappointment until she’d passed beyond
her own smile, which faded and appeared, faded and appeared, as if prompted and cajoled out of hiding.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Sometimes, when husbands stay out of the way, friendship was easier between women”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Damn house was quiet now, even her cat walked too softly to hear.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Younger people just don’t seem to realize that time eventually shows up for a payoff, and the longer it gives you, the more it will ask for , Bessie thought and nearly said aloud. I’ll take your memories, your ability to walk. How about your bladder?
Good old Father Time, Bessie mused to herself. Bastard”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Perhaps that is what death is , Bessie thought
as she awoke, a senseless reprisal of our lives, a void we drift in and out of, unable to control it, we are doomed to it; the senseless end of a long tale, the senseless repetition of a long life endlessly retold with forgotten information.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“There are opportunities to find mistakes around every corner you turn, Richard.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“There is impotency being haunted by things we can’t change; being stuck in your own damn mistakes isn’t healthy. But when I think about
the things I need to do right now, and possibly won’t, because I’d rather talk myself out of doing something that’s coming from my heart, there’s impotency in that, as well, and it’s the worst kind of indifference, Spider; it’s not doing what your heart is telling you to do. And there you’ll be, old and dying, with regrets deep as the Seneca, and maybe even longer.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“How can you live as long as me and not see the losses and the gains and accept the change as
something to be responsible for?”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“She was well aware that the heart
never breaks just once, it cracks open a million times across the span of a person’s life and as long as she kept living it would break again.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“When friends stopped coming by, the days were upset by it, the redundancy of routine, once altered, needed to find new distractions, like puzzle pieces that need connection in order to form a whole.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Nobody could understand the past except the people from it.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Roland was handsome, movie star perfect, and he moved knowing it.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep

“Life must be much more evident when one is always suffering.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Lies a River Deep