The Department of Lost & Found Quotes

“There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found

“You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found

“There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on. ”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found

“I'd recognized it only recently. I wasn't sure if it was because she had changed or I had, but it didn't really matter. I recognized it just the same... If you just noticed the shiny veneer on the outside, they'd always look perfect. So you had to peer closer, watch them when they didn't think they were being watched. Eventually, you'd notice the dings.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found

“Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a choice.
Natalie: No, Jake, that's where you're wrong. Me getting cancer? True enough, I had no choice. How you treat the ones you love? Well, there, you always have a choice.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found

“just as you’re on the cusp of returning to your everyday life, right as you press your nose up to healthfulness and start going about your business as you did before the disease mowed you down, you have to start it all over again.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found

“It gets easier. Eventually you figure out what went wrong and you sort of breathe a sigh of relief that you didn’t make a more permanent mistake. And then you just hope that you find someone who won’t end up being another misstep.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Department of Lost & Found