The Innocent Sleep Quotes

“paralyzed by the past, caught in the amber of loss.”
― Karen Perry, The Innocent Sleep

“When Dillon's loss had aged us both; there was no doubt about that when I looked at photographs of the two of us in Tangier, we seemed to be kids. We were students when we first met. Bright-eyed and all that. Now, well, yes, there were lines of age on her face, lines of sadness. In the dark blue-gray of her eyes, I saw an extra depth of melancholy, but not despair; instead, there was a depthless sympathy, a forgiving and timeless patience. The difference between us was, whereas I looked ragged and rough around the edges, Robin had aged gracefully.”
― Karen Perry, The Innocent Sleep

“Even the most saintly among us can slip.”
― Karen Perry, The Boy That Never Was

“The X Factor was on TV. The world was falling apart. Ireland was bankrupt. I had seen my dead son. But all the whole of fucking Ireland and the U.K. were talking about was The X Factor.”
― Karen Perry, The Innocent Sleep

“Why is it that we measure our love affairs in temporal terms? A marriage that lasts forty years is viewed a success. But some things that are short can be more meaningful, in some ways more lasting than those that stretch out for our lifetime.”
― Karen Perry, The Innocent Sleep

“I have four children under the age of eight! Two of them I seriously suspect have ADHD or Asperger's or some bloody thing. And one of them is waking up twice in the night for a feed. What does he expect? That I sit around daydreaming about jumping his bones? Please. All I want to do is sleep.”
― Karen Perry, The Innocent Sleep

“The trick is not to panic. But it was hard to stay calm in a climate of fear.”
― Karen Perry, The Innocent Sleep