When I'm Gone Quotes

“appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“You can’t assume everything’s okay inside the house just because the paint isn’t peeling and the yard is neatly mowed.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“It always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“It’s the end that marks a beginning, not the first day.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“What they don’t know is this: appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay. May”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“How could he find a future with someone if he couldn’t stop obsessing about what happened in the past?”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“He’s sad, and sometimes sad comes out as mad.” “Hmm.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“It sounded like something he definitely didn’t want to do, today or ever,”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Our feet whispered through the grass as fireflies flickered in slow circles around”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“How could everyone else find it so simple to slip back into life, the world revolving, businesses opening and closing, buying and selling, when the pillow on the right side of his bed was empty every night? Luke”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“of”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“His”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“How could everyone else find it so simple to slip back into life, the world revolving, businesses opening and closing, buying and selling, when the pillow on the right side of his bed was empty every night?”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“He stepped back across the invisible line married people wear around them when spending time with the opposite sex,”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“What they don’t know is this: appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“would”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“hasn’t happened in a long time. I swear. We are doing great.” Luke raised his eyebrows. He knew better; he’d seen the finger-shaped bruises on her arm just a few days ago. Annie ignored him. “I know you can’t understand. You and Natalie had the perfect marriage.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“oxymore”
― Emily Bleeker, Quand je serai partie

“always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“He stepped back across the invisible line married people wear around them when spending time with the opposite sex, folded the letter protectively, and put it back in his robe pocket.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Why are little kids’ cheeks so temptingly kissable, especially when they are sleeping?”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“He’d rather have a woman who wore a size ten but wanted to make love with the lights on, than a size two who hid in the shadows.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“CHAPTER”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“At least when you are a widower, everyone expects you to be sad. Annie had loved Natalie like a sister, yet she was expected to go on with life as though Natalie meant no more to her than the checkout girl at the Wal-Mart. Though”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Unfortunately, cancer isn’t scared off by love.” “Mmmm,”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Grief seemed to chase away the comfort of sleep, and he longed for a night where he could drift off into a blissfully unaware dreamworld, where life was potentially weird but definitely less paralyzing.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“letter. Luke”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“What’s worse,” he continued, absentmindedly placing his head on top of Annie’s, “everyone in town knew he hit her. Terry knew; she’s told me that before. It was like this big extended family of enablers. No one called the cops, least of all my mom.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“blotchy freckles on your cheeks”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“He had a real mom, with flesh and blood and a heartbeat he could feel and hear. A heart he grew under for nine months. A body that fed him for another ten. Arms that held him for three years.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone