The Second Life of Ava Rivers Quotes

“Life, it keeps going. That's pretty much all it is when you boil it down: perpetual motion.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Besides, the library’s the world’s best-kept secret,” he said, surprising me, because he never for one second struck me as a bookworm. “It’s the only place where anything’s possible and everyone will leave you alone.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Maybe joy is even more potent when you’ve known the depth of its opposite.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“It would be amazing if there were a reason for all this. A reason for her misfortune, a reason for her captivity and abuse, a reason for her return. I'm skeptical at first as we steep in the contemplative silence. But then I remember reasons are human inventions.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Funny how we're not just our features, we're the areas between.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“imagine what it would be like to be ridiculed and victim-blamed”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“It’s like, mind and body work in tandem, so she thinks she’s sick and then she convinces herself and it manifests in her body, so she actually is sick at this point. Her fake Lyme disease has totally crippled her for real.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Elliott’s Saturday is Scarlett O’Hara’s tomorrow.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Tonight it’s Wexican food. You know, corporate white people faking Mexican”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Love is an excruciating delicacy. Maybe that is its force.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Maybe joy is even more potent when you've known the depth of its opposite.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“I grab a book. I sit in the corner. My eyes fall on the page, and I disappear into the ink.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers