Death at Greenway Quotes

“Her grief would never be entirely spent, but spending some of it instead of bottling it up had cured some part of her circumstances.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“As though Gigi had never existed. None of them had. When they were turned out and scattered, who would remember that they had once all converged here? But maybe that was true of every life not fit for the history books. The small lives.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Diana was everything: crown and scepter, the rule of the land. Her daughter, in whose memory she would reside someday. Her child, the tree she had planted.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“This was the thrill, not of being adored, of being loved, but of being needed.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“All love opens us up to loss.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“People don’t mind a rumor either, not when it fits the shape of the anger they already have and can’t find a place for.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“It was a thin thread that kept them tethered to the earth, a single strand of her embroidery floss, easily snapped. No one keeps us. They were all small lives, nowhere near the center. Tossed about by the gale of history and hardly noted for having endured.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“How do you do it?” “Hmm? Do what?” “Learn to let doubt in.” “We question ourselves, understand what we do not know and learn from it,” he said. “Operate, if you will, from the heart rather than the mind only. If we do all this, we may yet build a better version of ourselves. Worth a try, anyway.” “Worth a try,” she agreed.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“My doubts make me human. Would you want to be under the care of a physician with no doubt, no humility at all? An automaton? A monster.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“but do I doubt myself? Yes, and gladly. Someone who didn’t doubt himself—would he try anything but the first remedy he thought of?”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Her dismay sounded like one of the gulls from the beach.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Someday, somewhere, there would be silence and she could have a good night’s sleep and a thought in her head again.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“She wouldn’t allow a woman looking such as herself in the door, for fear she’d nick the silver. Vera let the mop lean against the wall and centered herself at the mirror, turning her chin one way and the other. Vera Scaldwell prided herself on being the woman no one had to wonder about. But did they not wonder about her, or did they not think of her at all?”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Sad state of affairs that to find a moment’s peace, one had to find it in the bathroom with a bucket.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Grief was a game played so that one might only lose.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Often there is no logic to be found,” Hart said. “You must know that, coming from London and what’s happening there. Very little point to death at all. Your entire generation of men will be devastated by it, and the repercussions will last decades. Perhaps longer.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Women pay more attention, and they’re never asked what they think—and when they do share an opinion, they’re told in a hundred ways their thoughts don’t matter. Women always know more than they let on, and the smarter they are, the less they’ll say.” “That doesn’t seem right.” “The smarter they are, the more they know their intellect will never reward them.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“How tiring it must be to be an interesting person.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Asking questions is a difficult habit to break,” Gigi said. “And I’m interested in other people, aren’t you? Their oddness, the things they think bog standard that no one else would recognize. It’s thrilling to know what people feel, to know who they really are. It’s rather an addiction. Once you start collecting, it’s difficult to stop. It’s difficult,” Gigi said, “not to take in what people don’t want you to know.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Children were a promise, too. Or she had thought. Her steps slowed on the cobble. If you raised a child, you were plunking down a wager in favor of the future, choosing your horse.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Wasn’t it remarkable that one might go about one’s life, thinking oneself at the center, barely looking right or left, only to discover that everyone else was exactly the same?”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Half-truths sometimes tell the truth better than anything else,” Gigi said. “If you listen to a room of people boasting and telling stories, you’ll find out what truly matters to them. What they’re scared of. What they’ll put up a fight about.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“I’m sorry,” Gigi said. “I am, for being such a terrible snob. I’ve no right to be.” “Don’t be daft, of course you do. In my experience, pretty girls get the privilege of being whatever they like to be.” “Except intelligent,” Gigi said, raising her chin. “Or resourceful. Except anything but pretty.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“A fete in the streets--what good was it? What good was waving a flag and pointing fingers into the air, when they'd lost so much? Too much. They would erect stone plinths to lay wreaths on for the men, and surely more bronze forms to the commanders. Where would they build the remembrances to the valor of the women who had died, who had protected, who had sacrificed? It was not just a generation of men who was lost or changed. It was all.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“Wasn't it remarkable that one might go about one's life, thinking oneself at the center, barely looking right or left, only to discover that everyone else was exactly the same?”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“the deaths that caught one by surprise, wedged under one’s skin.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“He’d heard she’d handed a feather to a veteran of the Great War and he’d had his fun with her, asking next time for the whole goose.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“She hated what she had become and withstood and allowed. Bridey turned her back on them all and ate her rage whole.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“they’re told in a hundred ways their thoughts don’t matter. Women always know more than they let on,”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway

“London, remade each night by new destruction.”
― Lori Rader-Day, Death at Greenway