For Roger Quotes

“Honey, if you’re looking for absolution, you’ve come to the wrong pew.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“A tiny fissure opened that day, like a small crack in the cement foundation of your house. Either you don’t notice it, or you figure it’s just cosmetic. No big deal.
Until the floor gives way beneath you.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“I was a quiet, easy baby. Martha came out rebelling and never gave up the insurgency. I learned young that the daughter of an Army General toes the line. Martha jumped rope with it.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“. It’s as if, after swimming upstream in the chilly waters of my childhood, I’ve reached a warm sea, where I can simply float. I haven’t been willing to stir the familial sediment at the bottom. After all, that’s where all the shit is.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“Some ‘blended’ families come together like coffee and cream, swirling in beautiful patterns until they become one, forming a new color. Our family came together like two chunks of summer-hardened concrete. Roger is the rubber expansion strip between, keeping the edges from grinding together.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“Today, death rides a bicycle. My bicycle.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger