Arrowood Quotes

“... nostalgia was once thought to be a mental illness or a physical affliction; for me, it was both.”
― Laura McHugh, Arrowood

“We all had dreams, regrets, accomplishments, people we'd loved and disappointed, and at some point, for each of us, those earthly concerns would fall away, our lives replaced in an instant by darkness or--if you believed--light. Sometimes deaths came too soon, sometimes not soon enough, and only for certain sinners did it come at a time of one's choosing.”
― Laura McHugh, Arrowood

“I'm okay," I said. That was the answer people wanted, when they asked.”
― Laura McHugh, Arrowood

“My hand warmed where he'd touched me, like a match had been struck across my skin.”
― Laura McHugh, Arrowood

“I used to play a game where I imagined that someone had abandoned me in a strange place & I had to find my way back home-I thought I could do it blind, the same way a lost dog might trek a thousand miles to return to its owner, relying on some mysterious instinct that drew the heart back to where it belonged.”
― Laura McHugh, Arrowood