Marrow Island Quotes

“He went on, but I tuned him out. I made eye contact and nodded occasionally, but I didn’t hear what he was saying. I had heard it all before. Even men who should’ve known better–overeducated progressive types who probably considered themselves feminists–had no compunction explaining things to me.”
― Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island

“When I let go of my own work, my own priorities, I lost the qualities he had been attracted to in the first place. That's how he put it. He loved the woman I was before I was in love with him.”
― Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island

“The animals know what’s coming before we do; they heed the instinct to flee. But we humans, even when we know what’s coming, we do nothing. We watch the animals disappear.”
― Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island

“A fire needs three things: a dry bed, fuel, and room to breathe.”
― Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island

“So much of our thinking is involved with things we’ve already done and things we have yet to do. It’s almost impossible not to be thinking about some future moment or some past mistake or tragedy.”
― Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island

“Ignorance is God's greatest gift to us, she said. Oh, you would say, but we have learned so much on this earth that is of use, that sustains those who come after us. And yes, I concur! It is the ignorance of what it beyond this moment that I'm thinking of. We only know what has come before and what is not, but not what is to come, and that, that ignorance it is a gift.”
― Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island