Grave Reservations Quotes

“The world is full of things we can’t control. All we can do is keep trying, keep working.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Everybody knows 'technically' is the best kind of correct.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Every day,' she told him, 'you have to decide how to fail, and make the best of it.' At the time, he'd found it cynical. Now he honestly found it helpful — if for no other reason than he knew it was normal and he knew he wasn't alone.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Every day," she'd told him, "you have to decide how to fail, and make the best of it." At the time, he'd found it cynical. Now he honestly found it helpful — if for no other reason than he knew it was normal and he knew he wasn't alone.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Yes, bad things happened to you—really bad things. But you survived them! Now that chapter’s closed, and you can… well, you don’t have to forget any of it. You don’t have to pretend it never happened. But you’ve got the whole rest of your life to live, so how are you gonna live it?”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“But tonight she inhaled, pushing the air past the tightness, feeling around for the lump in her throat. It was there. The odds were fair that it always would be. But tonight it was smaller, and she did not sob, but smile.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Every day,” she’d told him, “you have to decide how to fail, and make the best of it.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“No matter how bad your day, how terrible your choices, how ridiculous your risks, a dog would never tell you how stupid you were.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“Holy Moses, dude. You’re trying to apply a rigorous scientific standard to something that kind of… comes and goes, and mostly sounds bugnuts insane if I talk about it out loud.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations

“You always feel better after you sing. It’s like exercise, or eating your vegetables, or mediation. But with glitter and the occasional high note.”
― Cherie Priest, Grave Reservations