Water Street Quotes

“Sixteen years move in slow motion; then catch speed, fast, like the pages of a book being flipped.”
― Crystal Wilkinson, Water Street

“But it was long before then that I realized that my mother was no longer there. That she had died with my father. I was a little girl being raised by spirits. In”
― Crystal Wilkinson, Water Street

“My father had been buried for a month when my mother came back to claim me. She returned as somebody even I didn’t recognize—a spirit barely alive imprisoned in her body, a husk. When we returned home, I mourned as much for the loss of my mother as I did for my father. Even then her shoulders had started to slump in surrender. Her skin had begun to wrinkle.”
― Crystal Wilkinson, Water Street

“On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on; the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the kind of story carried beneath the breastbone, near the heart, for safekeeping.”
― Crystal Wilkinson, Water Street

“But some of us have moved away and they are the ones who miss this street the most. They will always belong here even when they think they no longer do.”
― Crystal Wilkinson, Water Street