Eat the Ones You Love Quotes

“Lay waste to yourself all you like, I will grow in your ruin.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“You can feel the sorrow of a thing that is gone without wanting it back, like mourning the version of yourself who was happy—for whom this was enough.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“you have to learn to love somebody in the quiet of themselves, as well as the noise, the chatter.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“What a gift to go out singing, really; how many people will get such a luxury as their last breaths being given to a love song?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“A flirtation is the edge of a petal, not even the yellow of pollen. A flirtation is a dance you can walk away from, or a walk you can dance away from.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Every time you leave someone’s life you risk being the worst thing that’s ever happened to them, or the last thing to ever happen to them, don’t you?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“A sharp reminder that all of floristry was a dance around decay.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Disease is what she thought. Madness. Cancer. Both. Worse. Magic never even crossed her mind, such is the tragedy of adulthood.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“That's the biggest question the modern woman faces while dating a man. Have you considered dating someone who is not a man?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“We can't be angry at her spinelessness, at her malleability; she isn't sure how not to be a lost thing, but lost things have use.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“She could have taken a brick to me and done terrible damage. She could have dug me up with her hands, or a spade, or poured bleach into the ground; I was young enough then, my roots spare and scant. Instead, she took the collection of skin and water and bone and organ that once had been her aunt, her family, and slung it up over her shoulder.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Didn't matter how warm the house was or wasn't, how thick her pajamas - this time of night was a cold one from the inside of her, not the outside.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“She felt like an animal, running mouth open into a field, the barn burning behind her, paws wet with gasoline.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Lay waste to yourself all you like, I will grown in your ruin.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“It didn't hurt her, rather gave her the same sensation as being very softly kissed. Was that not what she had wished fo? And what places to be kissed! Her palm, her cheek! My tenderness knows no bounds; this was all but an act of worship.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“The path ahead of her was strewn with petals; the path behind rippled with flames.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Like, you walk away from a person you can't help, you don't want to help, and you leave them there in your old life with all their problems and their sorrow, and you're risking the version of reality where you could have fixed them. I can't fix anybody. I've got my own shit, we all do. Every time you leave someone's life you risk being the worst thing that's ever happened to them, or the last thing to ever happen to them, don't you?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Shops are … old. Markets are old. People need the old.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love