Everything Inside Quotes

“The lightness returned. That airless sensation of his body evaporating. Darline and Paris were fading, too. They were becoming distant longings, silhouettes, shadows fading on the ground.

There are loves that outlive lovers.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“There are loves that outlive lovers.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“Still, she heard herself say, “Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside: Stories

“And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“May your love remain an eternal flame.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“For those we don’t see
For those who are not here.”
― Edwidge Danticat , Everything Inside

“Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she’d learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“I am too easily swayed by every story I hear, or see, or witness, especially the tragic ones,” she said. “I think this is going to be the story of my life. I’m going to be the girl who is too easily swayed by other people’s stories.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside: Stories

“Sometimes you just have to shake the devil off you, whatever that devil is. Even if you don’t feel like living for yourself, you have to start living for your child, for your children”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside: Stories