The Perfect Escape Quotes

“What people didn’t get about tragedy, people who hadn’t yet had the privilege of going through it, is that it could be so casual. When bad news came, it was never like the movies. No dramatic score building to a crescendo. No slow pan of the camera. It struck out of nowhere—a midday phone call while you were at work. A sentence uttered—“It’s probably fine”—that would replay henceforth on a loop.”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape

“I’d thought love could conquer all. I didn’t know that love could be as selfish as anything else.”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape

“People don’t realize, when your world breaks apart, you’ll do anything for the chance to put it back together.”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape

“I had a terrifying sense of standing on a knife’s edge and not wanting to fall off. A sense that what she was about to say was going to change everything. And this large part of me wanted to sit on this knife’s edge, make myself a home there, uncomfortable as it was,”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape

“No one ever thinks the world is going to implode, the ground sink right out from under where they’re standing, and that the one in however many thousand will ever apply to them.”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape

“I was the mother among my group of girlfriends, having skipped the after-hours hookup scene altogether.”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape

“Rage is so much deeper than anger; it’s the sort of thing that bursts out of you. It’s uncontrollable; that’s in its very definition. Rage isn’t content to be a feeling, something you jot down in your diary or unpack with a friend over drinks. Rage demands action. It hooks you with its claws, dragging you forward, imbuing you with tunnel vision, turning everything around you bright white, except for that one image, right there in front of you, pulsing along to the blood throbbing in your temples.”
― Leah Konen, The Perfect Escape