Forget You Saw Her Quotes

“chest.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“It felt like she’d rejected me as a mother from the moment she came screaming into the world in the middle of the night. As if she sensed my incompetence and immaturity from the first time I held her, when the nurse snapped at me to support her head. She’d cried so much, been such a difficult baby, and I’d been so exhausted and stressed that I’d seen everything through the lens of my own desperation.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Those tiny, precious memories had been so elusive the first time I lived them. Beautiful moments tucked inside all of the awful, painful ones: sleepless nights, panic, and heartache. I’d all but missed them, because they contradicted what I believed at the time. A belief I’d carried with me for seventeen years, even though it sounded so juvenile and I could barely put words to it: I’d always been sure that my baby had hated me.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“I love you. Tsunami. Talk in the morning? I typed out. Tsunami was the code word we’d used since the first year we were married. It basically meant that one of us was too overwhelmed to connect without melting down. A disaster that needed time for the waves to recede.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“I would live my life, breathe in as many lungfuls of air as I could. And then I would find her again.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Until this moment, the idea of being haunted had never once crossed my mind as a good thing. Now I found myself wishing for it with every part of my heart.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Two worn cotton squares in a cosmic quilt.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Tsunami was the code word we’d used since the first year we were married. It basically meant that one of us was too overwhelmed to connect without melting down. A disaster that needed time for the waves to recede.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“the”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“And maybe mourning was just waiting”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“made after all. And maybe mourning was just waiting”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Never wrestle with a pig because you’ll get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Forget you saw her”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“maybe mourning was just waiting”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Every woman I’d ever met had learned how to grin with her heart bleeding out into her chest.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“And maybe mourning was just waiting, while holding onto the ones we love in the only ways we could. For now.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“You should have come home. I wanted you to come home, Isabel.” I stared harder at the dark blades of grass between us. “I wanted to come home. You have no idea how much I wanted that,” I told her quietly.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Somebody knows something.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“Without looking at the item in her hand, she gently set it on the passenger seat beside a sweatshirt—where I sat riding shotgun beside her.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her

“butterfly earring lay a few feet away from her hand, on the”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Forget You Saw Her