The Wilderness Quotes

“A cliché is a cliché because it is common.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“It is our job as friends to figure out how to be there for the people we love, come what may.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“Absolve, dissolve, and resolve,”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“If you want to reverse course”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“I am on cocaine. Of course I’m awake.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“nipping at society’s collective heels. Atrocities, natural catastrophes, the dissolution of common decency. Always something new to hate, someone who deserved derision and ostracism. Always somebody murdered, somebody murdered, somebody murdered. Their gone-too-soon faces everywhere, overly familiar. No way to live at all.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“there were nights she felt like every edifice she’d propped up to separate her from the elements, the wind-blasted outside of aloneness, could crumble, and she’d have nothing but her own uncovered self to brace against it. It might not take much for her to end up in the wilderness once again.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“Much too young to be left to figure things out for herself without a few good nudges. Why hadn’t they nudged?”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“My granddaughter here”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“Being estranged from someone you loved turned out to be a grief that came in waves. Loss was loss was loss.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“The guilt of not showing up when I should have has led me to sense offense when none was intended, to assume resentment lingered in them the way shame did in me.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“It was Conrad’s family history, yet Nakia’s mother Juanita, daughter of an electrician, took special pride in relaying it. Nakia, on the other hand, tended to tell only her closest friends that she came from free people. Not free from jump—who but a handful could claim that on this continent?—but free for a good, long while.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness