Still Life With Elephant Quotes

“Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception.”
― Judy Reene Singer, Still Life With Elephant

“You can have all the sympathy in the world," she said, "just don't feel like you have to wrap your life around it.”
― Judy Reene Singer, Still Life With Elephant

“There are losses that etch themselves forever, deep into your soul, and losses that can be replaced,” he said, very softly. “Peace of mind comes when you learn to tell the two apart.”
― Judy Reene Singer, Still Life With Elephant

“H OW LONG can you sleepwalk through your life? A few weeks? A few years? Ten or twenty years, if you’re not paying attention? I”
― Judy Reene Singer, Still Life With Elephant