The Life Before Her Eyes Quotes

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

“No one is going to hear what she says whether she speaks or not. Simply she could close her eyes and never speak again. She could suck all of the air in this room-every dust mote, every atom-into her body and hide it inside her…”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

“We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

“The first shot causes warm rain to fall on Diana's arms from the sky. The second plants a mirrored jewel in the left temporal lobe of her brain…a place she could have named on a quiz but which now seems to be the place where the future is imagined, the place where what would have been is.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

“Behind him there's still the mirror…a bit of infinity, which in its disinterest still holds their reflections safely in it.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

“Mr. McCleod: And if there’s anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you’re abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body’s strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don’t get too dehydrated.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

“The blond stuffs her hairbrush, which is now spun with gold and black silk (a miniature angel's nest) back into her backpack next to her anthology of English literature. The pages are so thin, they're like dead girls' dreams, translucent skin. On them it seems that everything that has ever been thought has been written.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes