The Mad Wife Quotes

“Life is a continual process of letting go, but this I choose to hold on to. This I will never surrender, because I remember. Always and forever, I remember.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“If you, Dear Reader, have ever felt unseen, unheard, or untethered from the world around you, I hope this story reminds you that your existence, your presence, your voice, your heart is enough. You deserve to be here. You always have. Take care of yourself and each other.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Of course, sometimes we forget that dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“They say women forget, but we don’t. We tuck away the throes deep in our bones, forever carrying the memories in the recesses of our bodies.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“How long had that tree stood there? How much had it seen? How many seasons had come and gone as it stood rooted in that one place, growing and dropping leaves, rebirthing and releasing year after year after year? How many times had the first beams of sunshine illuminated its languid branches and shimmered its dancing leaves, casting wavering shapes that shifted with the changing hours? I used to resist the dark places, but now I knew that the fullness of life includes all of it: the light, the dark, and the shadows that creep between.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Sometimes the memories we keep are the ones we’d rather forget. But they have a way of finding us in the night, whispering along the wind so we remember.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Life is a continual process of letting go”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“The road home can be a long and winding drive, a labyrinth of memories and mistakes.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“We think we are the superior species, and yet there is so much we don’t know. Like the songs of birds. We hear the tune, but we don’t know the words. We only know what we want to hear.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“If over time Miltown made me myself again, I was curious to see who that person was”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Of course”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Smile the smile. And save the screams for the hours when the others slept.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“All of us are evolutions of ourselves, changing over time as the calendar moves forward. Who we are when we leave this world is not who we were when we entered.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“he made me believe in the possibility of love at first sight when all I hoped for was someone to belong to.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“but in the shadow moments of the night”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“What a blessing not to think.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.” ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“And my hope moving forward is that we may all have the eyes to see the silent suffering in front of us, the ears to hear their cries, and the empathy to take their hand and let them know that they are not alone, because we are all ghosts of this mysterious realm called life.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“An illusion may have been lifted the day the empty blanket fell to the floor, but in the shadow moments of the night, she calls to me again. I am no longer haunted by it. Instead, I embrace those moments because they belong to only us. No one else needs to know about them. No one needs to know about those times when she is with me, when we are together, when we step into those liminal moments of dormiveglia that pull us into each other’s presence across space and time, and what some may even consider sanity.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“I reached for a leaf that had landed on the ground beside me. I picked it up and began feeling it, the variations of the sides, one smooth and the other with roughness, as if it held a braille message of some sort. Maybe some answer to the mysteries of the seasons, if only I knew the language. Maybe it could tell me the future or even the past. But I couldn’t decode it. All I could do was try to trust.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Together does not mean sameness. He didn’t know—wouldn’t know—what it felt like inside my body and mind. He would never understand existing in a body that fought itself. He would never know the urgency to live as the clock ticked louder, faster, time suddenly having a different quality to it. He wouldn’t know what it was to be the light caught in a jar, watching the lid turn and tighten, each breath one closer to the final, last suffocating one.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“It’s surprising how much you can miss someone you’re not sure ever really loved you.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Of course, sometimes we forget that dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife