Along the Indigo Quotes

“I think we forget for a reason. If you remembered every single bad thing that ever happened to you, you'd never stop being sad.”
― Elsie Chapman, Along the Indigo

“She stared at him, heart like thunder in her chest. She'd never wanted to believe words so badly. But the smells of blood and ginger filled her head and left her confused. His fury when he'd left her along the river, his regret now--which was more real?”
― Elsie Chapman, Along the Indigo

“You can't do that,' she said.
'Do what?'
'Say you hate me and then decide to take it away. Because whatever made you change your mind about hating me could easily change it back again.”
― Elsie Chapman, Along the Indigo

“We speak now only in echoes, in traces of what once was - ash and dust and salt, from blood and bone and tears. And you hear us now because you've let us go.”
― Elsie Chapman, Along the Indigo