Dark Across the Bay Quotes

“But that was Lark’s Achilles heel. She told people too much. Trusted too quickly. Loved too hard.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Every family is an isolated incident. Worthy of investigation. No matter how good or bad you have it, there’s darkness and there’s joy. There’s confusion and miscommunication. There’s someone who isn’t speaking their mind and there’s someone who’s speaking theirs too often. There’s someone to blame, there’s no one to blame. Good times, bad times, ugly times, too. It’s a disaster, it’s the greatest thing ever; it’s who you are and who you are not. And meanwhile, the biggest problem of all is that the only people qualified to launch the investigation, the only people who have all the evidence, are the family members themselves. It’s a constant conflict of interest…no?”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Except, the moment her feet hit the hallway carpet, she came to realize two things. The first: she should have gone up into the attic and grabbed a golf club. The second: someone was standing behind her, and it wasn’t Ezra. She could feel it in her bones.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Sometimes, it felt like his grief would never get better, as though he’d be stuck in a perpetual cycle of sorrow until it was his turn to die.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Every family is also a ghost story. Did you know?”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Because when grief putrefied, all that was left was the black sludge of vengeance.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Your friend with the speed boat? That’s Felix Bellamy,” he said. “… and who is Felix Bellamy?” Lark asked. “Julien’s fuck-up of an older brother,” Leo told her. “And Marla Singer? That’s his mom.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“There was a Post-It stuck to the inside of the cabinet door. On it, in black Sharpie, two words: Welcome, Parrishes. And directly beneath it, a crooked smiley face, its skewed features enough to make Poppy’s skin crawl.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“It’s going to be a disaster or a revelation. There will be no in-between.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Ah, family… For, what is family if not an entity with an unavoidable voice? An organism the defies easy classification? And, even when all the members are asleep, a thing that yet dreams?”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Yes, every family is a horror story, too. Bet you knew that.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Every family is also a ghost story. Did you know? Specific moments haunt, and sometimes that haunt is welcome, and sometimes it’s not. In every family, Dad or Mom invariably do something wrong (often, much more than wrong), whether either is a “good” or “bad” person. And the ghosts of those past events stand in the shadows of the basement every time you need to get the laundry from below. History whistles in the middle of the night. It weighs enough to creak the floorboards out in the hall. Who can get any sleep with the noise familial history makes?”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay

“Every family is an isolated incident. Worthy of investigation. No matter how good or bad you have it, there’s darkness and there’s joy. There’s confusion and miscommunication. There’s someone who isn’t speaking their mind and there’s someone who’s speaking theirs too often. There’s someone to blame, there’s no one to blame. Good times, bad times, ugly times, too. It’s a disaster, it’s the greatest thing ever; it’s who you are and who you are not. And meanwhile, the biggest problem of all is that the only people qualified to launch the investigation, the only people who have all the evidence, are the family members themselves.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Dark Across the Bay