Lost Among the Living Quotes

“A marriage is unfathomable to those looking on, running as deep as the strata of rocks in the earth.”
― Simone St. James, Lost Among the Living

“For three years I had been trapped in amber—first in my fear and uncertainty, and then in a slow, chilling exhale of eventual, inexorable grief.”
― Simone St. James, Lost Among the Living

“Someone should write a poem, I thought, about the women. Not just about the men marching bravely to war and dying, but about their wives, their girls, their mothers and sisters and daughters, sitting in silence and screaming into the darkness. Unable to fight, unable to stop it, unable to tell the war to fuck itself. We fought our war, too, it seemed to me, and if it was a war of a different kind, the pain of it was no more bearable. Someone should write a poem about the women.”
― Simone St. James, Lost Among the Living

“I had never thought such a thing could be possible. But from the moment he’d walked past my desk, Alex Manders had entered my life and burned all of it down in a single night, as if with the flick of a match. And I gave in willingly and watched it go.”
― Simone St. James, Lost Among the Living