Drowning Erin Quotes

“I’ve been confusing comfort with happiness, apathy with freedom. Just like my parents, I’m missing my real life every single day by choosing things that are empty, by choosing to pretend.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Drowning Erin

“There are so many stupid, trivial things about the people we love. Things you never care about until they’re gone. And then all those things—the sound of a heavy tread at the side door, instant coffee, creaky knees heading upstairs—become things you miss, when they’re things you never knew you loved in the first place.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Drowning Erin

“That’s why you don’t give yourself to someone with whom there’s an expiration date; because you’re probably not getting all of yourself back when it ends.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Drowning Erin

“Losing him would have been hard enough, but now it feels like he’s taken all of my memories and crushed them underfoot too.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Drowning Erin