Don't Look for Me Quotes

“If there was fault, then there could also be prevention, the illusion of control to make life bearable.”
― Wendy Walker, Don't Look for Me

“That was the first time she’d felt them—the hollow spaces. The emptiness that would not fill up. Not with anything.”
― Wendy Walker, Don't Look for Me

“Apple seeds contain amygdalin, which will turn into cyanide when exposed to the enzymes in the human gut. They must be crushed or chewed for the amygdalin to be released. It can take thousands of apple seeds to kill a grown man. But how many, I wonder, to make him sick?”
― Wendy Walker, Don't Look for Me

“She wasn’t going home. Not this time. Whatever anger she’d felt for her mother for what happened to Annie, the love was deeper, and it was in her bones. With her mother’s absence had come a powerful longing to reclaim those sweet moments that had been lost.”
― Wendy Walker, Don't Look for Me

“am not a good mother because I did not drive four hours to watch my son play football so that he would feel loved. I drove four hours so that I could feel loved.”
― Wendy Walker, Don't Look for Me

“But like every other human defect, we have used science to outsmart our own biology. We can take a brain that is shredded ear to ear and we can put it back together with mantras like this one. Mantras that have been tested in clinical trials. Vetted in peer articles and TED Talks and now appear in self-help books. You just put one foot in front of the other, Molly. Every day, just one more step.”
― Wendy Walker, Don't Look for Me