Wreckage Quotes

“It wasn’t peaceful, no light at the end of a tunnel or any of that crap. Only fear and regret for all the things I’d left undone.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“I don’t know how it’s possible to long for home and be glad I’m away from it at the same time, but it is.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“She didn’t know yet that sometimes life makes different choices than you do. Stupid life.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“My only hope is that even if I have nightmares, they’ll be better than my reality.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“At five years old, twenty was too large to conceptualize. Twenty dollars was a fortune, twenty toys a treasure chest, twenty minutes a lifetime, twenty years eternity.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“Sometimes you have to lie. Sometimes it’s the only way to protect the ones you love.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“I loved her weight in my arms. It was like I'd always been an unbalanced scale that was finally correctly calibrated.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“We’ll come up with a story, a good story, and we’ll tell that instead.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“One of the things that surprised Lillian the most about lying was the rush.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“with her head cocked to one side, the reporter looked a bit like a spoiled cocker spaniel begging for a treat.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“She suddenly hated the tooth fairy, with her fancy little wings and magic wand.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“made that sound but I have to. Then, I hear it again, this time I’m certain, something large is moving”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“This isn’t good-bye. We’ve been through too much together to walk out of this place in opposite directions.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“poulet kung pao”
― Emily Bleeker, Naufragés

“Dave’s heart filled with a strange cocktail of happiness”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“how peaceful he seemed; all Dave saw was the outline of gashes down his face carefully camouflaged for an open casket.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“If only it were harder to lie, maybe she could stop. But lying was easy. Well, easier than telling the truth. And”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“Dave did owe Lillian, more than anyone but the two of them would ever know.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“don’t want to do any further interviews with the press.” Bill paused awkwardly. “Well, Mr. Hall, I’m sorry to tell you”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“It’s like that weird experiment I learned about in physics class in college, where the cat in the closed box is both dead and alive at the same moment. What did those kooks say? It’s not until you look that there’s only one outcome or the other. I guess you’ve got to look eventually or else you’d always end up with a box of dead cat goop. I”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“I think about all the stuff I have at home that I used to think was so important—my car, my house, my flat-screen TV, my iPod, my iPad. Then I look around here. I own nothing. I think I’d rather have nothing. Possessions are so temporary, they can go up in flames like our plane, or sink to the bottom of the ocean like our luggage. All I have of importance here are Lily and Paul, and I wouldn’t trade them for a million cars or houses or planes.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“If only it were harder to lie, maybe she could stop. But lying was easy. Well, easier than telling the truth.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“glances down at the cup in his hands and I imagine him filling it with the words I stopped him from saying.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“missed”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“answer.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“That must’ve been scary,” Genevieve said, eyebrows pinched together. If she wasn’t Botoxed to her hair roots, her forehead would’ve wrinkled in faux concern. Each question was more of a wish than a query, and with her head cocked to one side, the reporter looked a bit like a spoiled cocker spaniel begging for a treat.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“make him feel better. “I’ll find a spectacular way to embarrass myself”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emily Bleeker, a former educator, discovered”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage