Light, Coming Back Quotes

“I’m tired of people who dont know what they want, who have to be coaxed. I want somebody who’ll see a light in my eye and come to me.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“What am I doing here, anyway? she thought. Walking around on this strange planet.

Ahead of her was the vast, gray ocean of the rest of her life. Hers the only ship. No stars, no tango. No moon.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“Waiting for sleep she thought, I don't want one day after another, separated by sunrise, sunset, winter, summer, plodding along. I want one wonderful moment that will last until I die, in which day will be indistinguishable from night, water from air, song from silence. Touch from breath.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Mrs Medina

“Mrs. Medina looked at Lennie and realized now that she did truly love her, as you always love those few in your life who have rearranged your spirit, and little pricks of tears appeared in the corners of her eyes. She had expected this meeting with Lennie to show her what to do, to present her with something dramatic, a sign, a jolt that would shove her into action, indicate which way to go. But it wouldn't happen like that, she saw now. What would happen would be more like a slow undoing, thread by thread, of the texture and weave of her life, much like a poppy with its roots deeply embedded in a stone wall disengages itself, root by delicate root, to begin a new life in the soil.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“Will you always be with women?" Mrs. Medina asked quickly, without considering her question.

"You mean romantically?" Diana said. "Yes, if I’m lucky.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“Her mother had sung the moon song to her before she went to sleep, and always said afterward, "You're growing like the moon. Soon you'll be big, soon you'll have your own beautiful life. Full of stars, and ships, and you'll dance the tango.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“One day Lennie said, "Can't break now, we're too busy. But wait for me at the Paradiso. I'll meet you. I get off in half an hour."

Mrs. Medina would have waited half a day. Half a year. She had already waited more than half her life.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“This was not an act of affection, or even remorse, although I did feel terribly guilty. I had come to him straight from Lennie's bed, and he knew where I had been. That was not the lie. The lie was that the gesture was not for him. The gesture was made because my body was still longing for her, and I needed to touch flesh. The flesh I touched was his, but my mind remembered her body. And that was the first deception.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Mrs Medina

“We are always homesick for places where we cannot be. What are we longing for? Some feeling of wholeness or peace, something that's never possible right where we are? Some feel they are cut loose at birth and flung through time without any clue to where they belong, or with whom, and their life's obsession is to land somewhere, to find that missing person, or place, or spirit.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Mrs Medina