The Body Keeper Quotes

“This was how she coped, by calming her mind and removing all wants.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“I think that’s true. And maybe why I try to protect my mother from the bad things in my life.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“Everything about parenthood seemed rife with pain, but to lose a child in such a way . . . Most mothers would die for their children. But then there were others . . .”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“Life hurt. Living hurt. Memories hurt. She’d tried; she’d really tried. Tried to go back to the world. It wasn’t working, not when her choices were pain or nothing. She’d chosen nothing. But here now, lying by herself in the middle of nowhere, she acknowledged what she’d known all along. Nothing hurt too.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“I’ve got toe warmers in my boots and finger warmers in my gloves, thermal underwear, insulated snow pants, and a down jacket, and I’m freezing my ass off. And then I see photos of people in Antarctica, and it’s forty below or something insane, and they’re standing there smiling with no hat. And you have to wonder: What the hell?”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“If you are Shaun Ford, it might or might not be strange that you can’t remember being abducted. Trauma has a way of creating scabs, of protecting us from things. So it’s very possible you would have no accessible memory.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“Bittersweet, aching beauty could still be found in the aftermath of grief and evil.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“Let me remind you that the names he’s suggested so far are Kitty and Panda. Panda is kind of cool, but I don’t know if it has legs.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“She could do this. She knew how to do this. How to relax, how to slow her pulse and remove the terror from her mind. Lying on her back, she quieted herself, relaxing each muscle, slowly, from head to toe.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“Wounded without even knowing it. There was something compelling and heartbreaking and innocently brave about that.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper

“While in that intolerable situation, kept in a cell in the dark, she’d clung to the hope that there would be better days ahead.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Keeper