Silently Still Quotes

“We're dancing on a knife's edge every time you kiss me like that.”
― Julieanne Lynch, Silently Still

“The thing I love about you the most, is that when you're sleeping, I can imagine what you will look like when you're dead.”
― Julieanne Lynch, Silently Still

“Everything she loved and cherished seemed to wither away. No matter how hard she fought, someone she loved always left, one way or another.
Life remained still on the large grounds of the old family homestead. There was nothing but silence, followed by nights that brought the worst dreams with the oddest sense of foreboding knocking at her soul. Too many hours turned into days, all merging together, eating her alive from within.”
― Julieanne Lynch, Silently Still

“Sometimes, I pretend that all the bad things have been nothing more than a bad dream. But then I come home and the silence fills me with so much...pain," Jacinta said, revealing a part of herself she never thought she would.
"That's exactly how I've been feeling," Rosemarie said with surprise. "When you're away or at school, I feel like the house is watching me. Everywhere I look, there are memories, and they won't leave me be."
"But the memories are all we have, Mammy."
"Aye, I know. But when you're on your own, they can do crazy things to you," Rosemarie replied, looking down into her half empty cup.”
― Julieanne Lynch, Silently Still

“There are many things in this life that's not fair. Going to bed isn't one of them.”
― Julieanne Lynch, Silently Still

“She had become a master at hiding her true feelings, and as some would say, she was now a ticking time bomb.”
― Julieanne Lynch, Silently Still