The Newcomer Quotes

“There's no right or wrong way to grieve,' Agnes said”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Newcomer

“He'll die before me, she didn't say, but thought. I'll die alone, yet”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Newcomer

“There was a time of day, just before sunset, when things could go one way or another. When the whole world looked like a diorama, the sky a slow-moving painting, and sometimes she felt lucky to be exactly where she was, smoking on her porch, and other times she wanted to take the washing line and knot it around her neck”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Newcomer

“It was school pick-up hour. She had to pass the school to get from Fergal's to Rabbit's, and the little kids just reminded her. Reminded her of things she hadn't known she wanted, like chatter in the back seat, and cutting the crusts off sandwiches, and helping with homework, and most of all being a different kind of woman; the kind who wasn't pissed on glovebox vodka at three in the arvo. And then it hit her: she was really pissed”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Newcomer

“Life's boring. Gotta make some noise or the void will swallow me”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Newcomer