A Quiet Life Quotes

“Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a painting or a photograph will leave its shadows on the wall after it's gone, the way a tree will leave a crater where the roots and stump were.

He thinks of all this- this is the price he has paid for loving so much, and it doesn't feel better, but it makes sense. It seems reasonable.”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“We live so much of our lives without telling anyone.”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“Maybe the world has beaten him down, too. The dark mornings are so long, and she fills them wondering about what everyone else is carrying around, and whom they can share their pain with.”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“He doesn’t want to bag up Cat’s clothing. Any of it. He doesn’t want this house to be sold one day—all this furniture, too. He watches his daughter in front of him, and he holds on to the railing, and he doesn’t want time to happen anymore—or for Cat to be forgotten.”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“He imagines Hilton Head should have a motto under its welcome sign: Your Other Lite Awaits.”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“He was like an evergreen next to a tree that transformed itself brilliantly every season”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

“What happens to her memories? he wondered then. How does all that information, like a complicated computer hard drive, just fade to nothing?”
― Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life