Louisa Meets Bear Quotes

“Andrew would undoubtedly die believing he never needed anyone. I’d be a dot on the time line of human traps he escaped.”
― Lisa Gornick, Louisa Meets Bear

“All I’ve been able to think about for weeks is how much I want you. It was too much to actually have you here.”
― Lisa Gornick, Louisa Meets Bear

“I’ve lost not only my vanity but my feeling of mind-body identity, so that I no longer believe, as you did about me, that elegance of form is elegance of being. I do my best to keep the numbers on the scale where I want them and my skin and hair well tended, but my body is now essentially the vehicle for carting around what I think of as my self. Not”
― Lisa Gornick, Louisa Meets Bear

“There was an inscription at the end in Latin. It’s translated in one of the guidebooks: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you will be. What do you think they meant?” Janey looked confused, torn, Ilana was sure, between her wish to have her mother explain and not wanting to admit her incomprehension to her sister. “It’s obvious,” Sarah said. “The bones were once people. Someday we’ll be just bones.” “I knew that.” “Liar,”
― Lisa Gornick, Louisa Meets Bear