Waiting for the Night Song Quotes

“Lake water lived inside her. She had swallowed and inhaled it in gulps and gasps. Flicks of eroded granite boulders and millennia-old secrets has settled in her cells. She had always been made of these mountains. This lake. This forest.”
― Julie Carrick Dalton, Waiting for the Night Song

“We get to shape someone's brain."
"I thought you wanted to rescue him"
"Maybe we are rescuing him.”
― Julie Carrick Dalton, Waiting for the Night Song

“Her home would not be constructed out of polished marble or gleaming pine boards. It would be built of obstacles. Rocks from her hikes. New Hampshire granite. Boards marred by beetles. The intricate lace carved by the beetles would remind her every day how magnificent her adversary had been. How beautiful destruction could be.”
― Julie Carrick Dalton, Waiting for the Night Song

“Cadie longed to be found, but even more, she ached to be lost.”
― Julie Carrick Dalton, Waiting for the Night Song

“A gentle buzz settled over her, stirring a memory she couldn’t pull into focus. Not fear or regret, but a reminder of herself, of who she used to be. The Cadie who commandeered lost boats. The girl who rode her bike down hills with her arms over her head. That other Cadie prodded at her from some deep hiding place she had tried to forget.”
― Julie Carrick Dalton, Waiting for the Night Song