Harper's Landing Quotes

“After Rose, I had so much guilt and it simmered for a long time, until after Sarah left, and it started boiling until my head became a pressure cooker, my body vibrating with energy that had no outlet.
Until I cross-threaded a screw while I was fixing the bay door at the Firehouse, and it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I lost my fucking mind, that way you do when it’s been building for too long, and when you finally snap, it’s at something you can’t realistically blame or punish, like an inopportune papercut, hitting your head on a cupboard door, or trying to put your jacket on, but your sleeve is inside out so your arm gets stuck.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“She was the ocean—consuming, devastating, no hope of predicting or controlling her—and I was a helpless little piece of sea glass, thrown around in the pull of her tide, hoping to have my sharp edges smoothed by her touch.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“I was hopelessly gone for Lexi Harper. She was the ocean—consuming, devastating, no hope of predicting or controlling her—and I was a helpless little piece of sea glass, thrown around in the pull of her tide, hoping to have my sharp edges smoothed by her touch.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“I was shaking, my hands trembling like my body knew it was battling my brain.
War.
That’s what anxiety is in the end, isn’t it? The primal fish part of your brain thinks you’re in real, physical danger, so it does whatever it can to protect you.
Working against it felt impossible.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“Humans learn to adapt despite anything and everything.
Every blow, every strike, every catastrophic, life-levelling event—you just carry on, because what’s the alternative?
But it doesn’t make it hurt any less.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“Grief isn’t linear.
It comes in waves. Some are tsunamis—early on, most of them are. They knock your legs away again and again and again. You never have time to get back to your feet. Over time, the waves get smaller. It doesn’t get easier, just more manageable—but right after you lose someone, where you’re learning your new reality without them in it, it’s like being on the beach as a little kid, and you see the water coming, and you know that no matter what you do, you can’t get out of the way in time.
What people don’t tell you is that sometimes, the waves can get real big again for no reason. They come out of nowhere and steal your breath, and it hurts just as bad, even after years. Decades.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“It’s all well and good wanting to recover and grow and move forward, but healing’s only healing if you’re ready—otherwise it’s just punishment.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“Grief is strange. It doesn’t care about rules. It creeps up on you when you least expect it, sinking into your bones to drag you under just when you think you can breathe again.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“Don’t fuck with forever. No matter how much forever tries to fuck with you.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing

“Sometimes life doesn’t just kick you when you’re down—it waits until you’re in the gutter, then it pile drives you.”
― Evita Wren, Harper's Landing