Bodies of Water Quotes

“the secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water

“Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you’d think. It is a paradox.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water

“I feel my skin growing warm. But it isn’t the fact that Gussy told Effie about Eva, about everything that happened, but rather that someone would see beauty in the story. The idea that someone could hear about what happened all those years ago and not be disgusted, horrified, by all the tragedies that followed, that someone could find a sliver of the goodness, the beauty, I cling to is almost more than I can handle.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water

“This is one other thing I know: without autumn, there is no end. Without red and gold and orange there is no finality, no conclusion. Without the sudden shift in the air, without the scent of apples and the crisp chill of morning, summer could go on forever. Without fall, summer lingers. There is a marvelous limbo where I live now, without the changing of seasons. No blazing display to signify the end of everything good. Perhaps this is what drew me to California. A place where time is suspended.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water

“He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water

“This is what I know: memory is the same as water. It permeates and saturates. Quenches and satiates. It can hold you up or pull you under; render you weightless or drown you. It is tangible, but elusive.”
― T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water