The Things We Leave Behind Quotes

“Once again, my new novel The Girl Who Stayed is something different for me, although with the same voice my readers have come to anticipate. I believe that people are pretty much the same, regardless of era, physical”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“What are you working on?” Chris had asked. “Nothing,” Zoe replied, her fingers freezing on the keyboard.”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“If the house were on fire, what would you save? The cat? The computer? The only existing picture of your dead sister? Rather, the question should be: What would you be willing to lose?”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“Except that the digital numbers shifted as she stared and the clock’s panels turned to 3:53.”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“You love me, Zoe?” he’d asked on a number of occasions. “Don’t you?”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“course, he didn’t actually want her to go, nor did she care to join him. The tension in her shoulders eased a little, realizing he wanted her to say no. Pretending to contemplate his invitation, Zoe relaxed”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“didn’t look at her again—probably to avoid the permanent look of resentment now etched upon her face, a look Zoe tried impossibly to hide. That morning, however, as he tossed the briefcase into the backseat of his car, what it might contain, or how much he’d spent for the damned thing, was the furthest thing from Zoe’s mind. The instant he was out of the driveway,”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“spatters”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“consisting”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“most.”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“with”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“sure”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“ceiling”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“well,”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“fair,”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“she”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“couldn’t see fit to put more effort into this pretense. And Chris most likely because”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“envelope.”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“greatest”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“genre”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“essence”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“Zoe had”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along.”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“you. Once again, my new novel The Girl Who Stayed is something different for me, although with the same voice my readers have come to anticipate. I believe that people are pretty much the same, regardless of era, physical space, or culture, and this is the essence of my storytelling. I strive for characters you will relate to, no matter where or when they may have lived. The Girl Who Stayed is also a book of the heart and I couldn’t be more thrilled to see”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“filled with flawed characters, and brimming with emotion. Set in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, this book takes me home and is both deeply personal and intensely satisfying, in terms of pushing the storytelling envelope. In a sense, I’ve opened a vein with Zoe’s story. I hope you’ll enjoy her and pull for her as”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“Stayed is a woman’s story of discovery and acceptance, redefined by Tanya Anne Crosby’s dramatic storytelling,”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“There were a number of spots on the backsplash as well, behind the oven, which might have easily been the remnants of a fat, juicy steak, but if they tested the blood Zoe was pretty sure they’d find human DNA. The spatters had been there about a week now. Neither she nor Chris had bothered to wipe them off—Zoe, because”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“Zoe Rutherford wasn’t sure what she was expecting when she returned to Sullivan’s Island. The house on Sullivan’s hadn’t represented home to her in decades. It was the place where she endured her father’s cruelty. It was the place where her mother”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“It was 4:00 p.m. Chris would be in his car, she was pretty certain, watching Boss Man pull out of the parking lot. He would wait a few seconds to be certain the man was gone before he started his car, but then thirty seconds later he would be on the road, heading home. At 4:01 p.m. Zoe stood in the living room, the front door easily within reach. There must be something truly wrong with her that she was still standing beneath this roof. Her roof. With forty years’ worth of her life still stashed within”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind

“Probably not today, but another. She peered up at the red spatter on the ceiling—as though she needed reminders—and lifted a hand to her forehead, pressing a finger against the scar. “You can’t even please yourself; how can you please a lover, Zoe?” Chris was right about that. But absolving him wasn’t an option either. This wasn’t Zoe’s fault. She did not ask for a gash in her forehead. Grabbing her purse off the counter, she made a final sweep through the house, just to be sure she had everything.”
― Tanya Anne Crosby, The Things We Leave Behind