Dog Days Quotes

“She says nothing, but everything has changed, and when she goes up to bed later that night, after staying behind to tidy up, she finds all the bracelets she helped the women make lying on her bed with tags that say, ‘For you, Lizzie’. They are all blue, for protection. They were listening to her after all.”
― Ericka Waller, Dog Days: A big-hearted, tender, funny novel about new beginnings

“Lizzie had once read a memoir by a survivor of Jonestown...It seemed too unbelievable but, then, Margaret Atwood hadn't included any scenario in The Handmaid's Tale that hadn't already occurred in some time or place.”
― Ericka Waller, Dog Days

“Dan knew from a young age that he was always going to struggle not to tidy up the world. He always wanted to tell strangers if their coat was buttoned up wrongly, or if their scarf didn’t lie just so, but his shyness stopped him. So it made him anxious instead.”
― Ericka Waller, Dog Days: A big-hearted, tender, funny novel about new beginnings