The Coming Bad Days Quotes

“Sometimes we will the darkness into being because the anticipation is a thing much more terrible, and I knew that we both had apprehended even in girlhood the bad days to come.”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days

“I felt like the exposed root of a tooth in the mouth of the world as it wolfed down the day.”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days

“Yes, I thought, as I wiggled my toes under the duvet, each of us has in our mouths the incomparable taste of our own lives. We roll it around with our tongues, over and under, above and below. We hold it in or else we spit it out. And sometimes, sometimes we choke on it.”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days

“her sentences constellations of ruptures in my desire for order”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days

“her sentencer constellations of ruptures in my desire for order”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days

“I had thought that we could still talk to each other, you and I, but it turns out that this world severs everything tender. We try to communicate, without hesitation, without digression or justification. But all this means is that life has succeeded in duping us, in pulling the wool over our eyes, in making us believe that there is anything possible besides a terrible silence.”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days

“I felt that Clara was bringing the things I said into being, that my thoughts were being admitted to the sensible universe, transformed into atoms of pure glass one could hold in the palm of one’s hand, turn over and over.”
― Sarah Bernstein, The Coming Bad Days