Brawler Quotes

“She said we have art so as not to die of the truth. She said that in every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death.”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“There are moments in our lives when our sense of our own goodness is so shaky that we build elaborate defenses against the possibility that we may be far worse than we fear.”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“You got to understand. We’re about to see some pretty heavy stuff with these kids. Neglect and hunger and rape and broken bones and a bunch of other bad stuff”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“I regret this decision”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“When they rode their bikes home through the thick dark she sang songs; and hearing her made Aura feel as though the whole night were somehow bursting out of her”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“She rose into the flight”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“She kept herself still and ached”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“Now he was outside in the darkness”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“She had just wanted to know what it was like to brush up against the dazzling future again.”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“The profound pleasure of figuring things out”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“As the day passed”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“In these hills I finally feel again that deep yearning, not for anything in particular but for the wild whole-being gladness that I knew for the first time in the cottage covered in moss and ferns”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler

“I look around and can see it is so many other women, passed down from a time beyond history, this wind the is dark an ceaseless and raging within.”
― Lauren Groff, Brawler