The Blessings Quotes

“The truth is that life in the end--even a long life, especially a long life--amounts to a handful of a very few things. The longer you live, the shorter the story.”
― Elise Juska, The Blessings

“She thought about how it was something they would all remember forever. How this was family: to own such moments together. To experience them in all their raw shock and sadness, then get the food from the refrigerator, unwrap the crackers and fill the glasses, keep the gears turning, the grand existing beside the routine, the ordinary.”
― Elise Juska, The Blessings

“grew up in Philadelphia and still live there. Is The Blessings autobiographical or otherwise informed by your experiences there? The characters in The Blessings are fictional, but the rhythms and rituals of this close family were certainly influenced”
― Elise Juska, The Blessings