The Meadows Quotes

“Maybe for the ones who get good at pretending, it won't come out for years and years...Or they'll, quite without warning, walk into the ocean until their life disappears. And everyone will be stunned. And everyone will blink in perplexed anger. She was so happy. Always so happy.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“I know, though, I am not the same. I have a gravity of my own.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“There is something so good about rage.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“How you could walk forever without getting anywhere.
The archway to nowhere.
To everywhere.
Each beautiful piece of that place.
Every fine thing.
None of it, not a bit of it, real.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“In Clark's fine, stoic face, I see his entire life, a denial of want.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“My body was an object that I didn't own. A piece of furniture. It didn't matter what furniture wore.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“The moment she leaves, we'll both be alone.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“I'd been let to go float inside my own ocean, and I wasn't sure I could swim.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“There's nothing wrong with you. You are good just as you are.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

“Rose's face - nothing like that. Looking like it could grip the sky and rip it in half. Looking like she wanted to.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows