The Moment You Were Gone Quotes

“We desire and love and hate and quarrel and deceive and weep – and in a short while we’re gone and our lives leave no trace, and all those tears and all that laughter might never have happened.”
― Nicci Gerrard, The Moment You Were Gone

“You’re supposed to gain things as you grow older in return for the things that you lose. But what had she gained? Dignity? She hadn’t got that. Peace? No. Wisdom? It seemed unlikely. And what had she lost? Beauty, youth, innocence, possibility. Your past grows longer and your future shrinks. And you lose your parents and your children – often at the same time so that you go from being daughter and mother to being neither. What are you then?”
― Nicci Gerrard, The Moment You Were Gone