The Different Girl Quotes

“I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absence extended in lines of numbers made of smoke, backward in memory and forward in futures never to occur.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

“There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

“When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

“Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

“This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more than the fear.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl