I'll Come to You Quotes

“He felt recklessly, immoderately happy. Would this moment flow and pass and disappear for some time—like the memory of holding his own daughter—or for the rest of time, like so many others? It could break his heart, he knew, if he let it. Outside, everything was shining and nothing was moving. Gary kept swaying and he said to Olivia, “Look.” He couldn’t think of anything else to say.”
― Rebecca Kauffman, I'll Come to You

“What could be said of holding her child for the first time? She felt like the sun has slammed into her. And one instant, she became skinless and new and known. Yesterday and tomorrow broke into separate pieces and shot out apart from one another. What could ever be said of a moment that happened in no language, but every language?”
― Rebecca Kauffman, I'll Come to You

“Janet could only breathe again when she was out of her daughter’s home and free of her daughter’s superpower—or perhaps it was every daughter’s superpower: her ability to give and to take so much and so fast that a mother could never feel anything fully, and a mother could never feel anything safely.”
― Rebecca Kauffman, I'll Come to You

“What could be said of holding her child for the first time? She felt like the sun has slammed into her. In one instant, she became skinless and new and known. Yesterday and tomorrow broke into separate pieces and shot out apart from one another. What could ever be said of a moment that happened in no language, but in every language?”
― Rebecca Kauffman, I'll Come to You