Gut Deep Quotes

“I’m fine,” she said, nodding. I’d heard the “I’m fine” answer before. It usually came right before I broke it off with whatever female I’d been dating. The “I’m fine” ushered in a whole new territory of relationship baggage, where you then had to set off on a truth-seeking mission, like some emotional scavenger hunt.”
― Donna Augustine, Gut Deep

“Even if I wanted something more, she’d never trust me. How did you uproot your life when every conversation was a tug of war? How did you try to make a future work when the present wouldn’t?”
― Donna Augustine, Gut Deep

“He was like a cookie laced with arsenic, sweet to the taste but deadly.”
― Donna Augustine, Gut Deep

“Sometimes I wondered if the accident that killed my father had been an intentional suicide. We might not live as long as vampires, but a thousand more years with my mother might make anyone think life was too long. In death, he’d finally escaped the misery that was Larissa Tessa.”
― Donna Augustine, Gut Deep