A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak Quotes

“Elisa thumbs a stray curl from my face. "Sometimes we need a new memory to add to an old one." She gestures to the line of picture frames. "It does not mean the old one doesn't matter anymore or that it becomes less. It means the new one matters . . . too. También. And over time, they both change, nena. They change with us and inside us.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak

“And I grin, too, over my best photo from a time when I'm not trying to keep out hurt and disease from the frame.
Instead, I let in all the light.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak

“She's a hurricane, my family said. Good, because Miami knows what to do with those.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak

“Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, but no answers materialize on the paper.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak