On the Rooftop Quotes

“She didn't even sleep then; she wouldn't waste such precious hours. She'd sit and breathe in and out, in and out again, with a new lightness, the weightlessness of not being needed.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop

“what she had begun to consider ceaselessly with no target to aim the question at, was when she would locate herself again,”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop

“that was what she wanted, but she hadn’t wanted it to cost so much. She hadn’t wanted to be acquainted with the price.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop

“Pain is pain, you know that. Don’t care how you classify it, still eat at you the same, no?”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop

“All of life was filled with seasons, he said, and there was a season for sadness and you had to tend to that season just like you would tend to the season of joy. You had to nurture yourself, you had to let yourself cry out, you had to soothe yourself. But whatever you did, you couldn’t rush it, you couldn’t gripe about it, you had to extend it respect.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop

“Maybe it wasn’t worth it, the fear of all the dangerous ways this dream could implode; maybe she was alright as she was.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop

“feared it would overcrowd her heart, they sat still beside her. If it hadn’t been for them, she wouldn’t have made it.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop