The Cherry Robbers Quotes

“It’s easier to say that women like my mother are crazy. Then you don’t have to listen to them. And so maybe in a way she became crazy. Maybe she could communicate only by screaming.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“I knew the relationship she’d had with Daphne was forbidden, but it hadn’t occurred to me that most women like Veronica married eventually. Daphne wouldn’t have, but Veronica, I could see, was different. She was more willing to wear a mask.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Most children can’t imagine their mothers having a life before them, but for my sisters and me, it was the opposite. The wedding day was always the end of her story. We were the epilogue.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“But I think I’ve finally come to realize that it’s my destiny to be one of the madwomen. One of the women who speaks the truth no matter how terrifying it might be. One of the women who stands apart from the crowd, focusing not on their angry faces and disapproval but looking above them at the sky, which is in a vibrant shade of hyacinth blue that matches the flowers growing in the garden.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Women are raised to be accommodating, so I suppose a woman who draws clear lines that others are not allowed to cross becomes remarkable for that fact alone.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Syvia Wren is a ghost ...What a terrible thing to be a ghost while still alive.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“This story is jagged, could cut a deep wound. It isn’t a story I can tell with a thread and a needle, stitching in clean lines. It’s shards or nothing.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“When you live in defiance of yourself, you can adapt to your circumstances, but remnants of who you are at your core remain. A bit of wildness that can’t be tamed.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Picture taking off in an airplane from a city where the weather is too bleak to bear. The airplane climbs and climbs and finally breaks through the clouds where there’s nothing but light and blue sky. That’s my life with Sylvia, she said.”
― Sarai Walker , The Cherry Robbers

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers