All the Lives We Ever Lived Quotes

“A marriage is a secret, an alliance so private that even one's closest friends are privy only to its contours, to the performance that it becomes in public; no one on the outside could know the precise nature of its dynamics within.”
― Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

“It’s hard to envision any quantity of joy or satisfaction that would have changed my father’s fate; conversely, it’s hard to imagine any low that would have struck him as rock bottom.”
― Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

“Now I made myself scarce; I shut the door to my room and talked on the phone with friends or watched movies. My mother also disappeared, playing solitaire on the computer upstairs or reading in bed. I rarely went to her. You would think my father's behavior might have brought us together; in fact, it drove us apart.”
― Katharine Smyth, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf