The Left-Behind Child Quotes

“Maybe it wasn’t betrayal or indifference that had kept us apart. Maybe life, like ocean waves, drew people away from each other, not to separate them but to teach them how to float on their own first. Maybe life, one day, would bring us back together if we trusted it.”
― Romalyn Ante, The Left-Behind Child

“For the people around me, grief shrunk into something like a pebble in their shoe, small, manageable, something they could live with. But for me, it grew sharper; it pressed into my every step, no matter how hard I tried to ignore it. Eventually, I learned to stop talking about it, too, and carry on living as if I was not bothered by that cold rock somehow cutting into me with every step I took.”
― Romalyn Ante, The Left-Behind Child