Lion Quotes

“He fell in all the ways there are to fall. Short, out, apart, in love, from grace, afoul of the law, by the wayside, off the map.”
― Sonya Walger, Lion

“I call my friends here, the family I have known since birth, who live in rambling houses and are always at each other's birthdays, who pause their endless flow to fold me to their hearts every time I visit. This the family who retrieves me from airports and nightclubs and bus stops. This is the kind of family that I long for.”
― Sonya Walger, Lion

“I only know how to plunge my pain like a hot blade into the cool depths of the written page. I know how to submerge and disappear and every book I ever read has opened its pages to me with the promise that it will hold me, it will never abandon me, it will never let me go.”
― Sonya Walger, Lion