No Dawn Without Darkness Quotes

“My mother and I have lost the ability to talk. It’s as if the vacuum of Nani’s absence sucks up every word we might speak. Sometimes, I catch her staring at me. She always smiles and turns away, goes back to whatever she’s doing. My brain forms “I tried to save her,” but it gets lost on the way to my lips, so I say nothing at all.”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“It’s gotten even colder, if that’s possible. I watch the gaggle of people at Lexi’s table through the window for a while anyway. They are silent on this side of the glass, a TV show on mute. Lexi looks happy.”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“In offering these reparations, we hope to compensate these innocent victims of terrorism for any lost wages or other costs incurred as a result of the quarantine, bringing a swift resolution to a trying time in the nation’s history.”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“I am a comet, blasting down the hall, swerving around crap, my headlight carving tunnels of light through the dark to the escalator. The bike flies off the top step onto the second floor. Down the hall, the food court”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“This line of questioning is making me depressed. New subject. “So where should we start looking for Lexi?” I ask, pulling my cassock over my head.”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“There are no curtains on the second floor, so my flashlight illuminates the whole place. It’s just bodies on cots. Row after row after row. Dead bodies. Like a cemetery without the dirt. Then”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“But we were already inside it before I realized we had stumbled into veritable darkness.”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness

“Maddie and I keep our backs pressed to the wall. I focus on its solidity against my spine. I need to stay anchored in the darkness: the wall, the floor, Maddie’s hand on my arm.”
― Dayna Lorentz, No Dawn without Darkness