The Girl at the Border Quotes

“Gone. Without a warning or a goodbye—certainly with no explanation, although, with the passage of time, Laurel came to realize that no explanation would have sufficed or made her feel the loss any less deeply. A knife had been plunged into her chest, the blade dragged across her heart, scarring it forever. There was no cure for being abandoned, then, later, ever. A mother’s rejection was worse than her death. At least in death there was a body to mourn, an incomparable love lost, which later, in the fullness of time, was to be treasured. Abandonment was a darkened house, an empty room, a terrible certainty that if only she had done something different—anything—her mother would still be here, her presence felt, the song of her voice like the warmth of a summer sun. Now only winter, eternal winter.”
― Leslie Archer, The Girl at the Border

“It was not only time that healed all wounds; it was the people who suffered them.”
― Leslie Archer, The Girl at the Border

“Seriously depressed people feel themselves isolated, misunderstood, or, worse, ignored. Could be this is how sociopathic behavior is born, tested, tolerated, and, finally, embraced.”
― Leslie Archer, The Girl at the Border

“I wish I could help you. That’s all right. You’ll be here one day.”
― Leslie Archer, The Girl at the Border

“It’s funny how we tell ourselves stories and later wonder whether they were true. Thinking back to just before I came here, I can almost believe I actually was in Ephesus.”
― Leslie Archer, The Girl at the Border

“Now, when she wasn’t with him, she felt the near death of being alone, without trust, without faith. Without joy.”
― Leslie Archer, The Girl at the Border