Night's Edge Quotes

“I have to slow down to soak it all in, struck by this strange, sweet sense of nostalgia for a thing I’ve never experienced before. I didn’t know people could live like this. They seem completely removed from all the panic and danger consuming the rest of the world.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“Even if I asked, she probably wouldn’t tell me the truth. I stare at the door, listening to the car rumble down the driveway. Every night, the darkness devours another piece of her. I have no way of knowing how much is left.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I withdraw and shut the closet door with more force than I mean to. I feel that awful, snakelike squeeze around my chest again. I fight against my body, pressurizing my tears. This is going to happen, I tell myself. You’ll hear a song from The Sound of Music, or smell someone’s Chanel perfume on the bus. Someone will say something that isn’t exactly a thing she’d say but your brain will bridge the gap and whisk you back in time. This is going to happen.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“She crinkles her nose and offers me a weak smile. I can’t help but smile back. I have to believe there’s a version of this story that has a happy ending.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“She smiles—a wry crook of her mouth that’s neither warm nor judgmental. Sandy’s the vibey type; she can detect—and sometimes mirror —anyone’s mood in an instant. She doesn’t know what to do with whatever she’s just sensed in me. Which makes two of us.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“What I mean is, I don’t think I could keep myself from telling the truth, even if it wasn’t a true story. The secrets of my life would seep between the lines and bleed all over the page.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“She smiles big and bright, and my heart somersaults into my throat.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I like the consistency. Sometimes I feel like all I do is watch everything around me change.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“Of course it’s fine. It’s always fine. It has to be.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I don’t need any others. I don’t get lonely. Loneliness can’t exist when two people are lonely together.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“When I was a kid, I was delighted by all the colors. These days, the vibrancy feels like a sensory assault, as if I’m trapped inside an endless game of Candyland.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“But all stories are true stories, if you look closely.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“Her makeup gives her an alien effect in the black light: dramatic colors highlighting the sharp angles of her face. She’s more than beautiful, more than the embodiment of everything I never knew I wanted. She’s an echo from another world, calling me to join her on the other side.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I glance at my reflection and catch my breath. I feel magical, like I’ve just stepped out of a dream. Maybe hers.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I’ve never willingly put myself at risk like this. But that was before I knew I could feel this way. Before I knew anyone like Jade, who made me feel so brave and so capable because that’s who she was. Tomorrow could be the first night of my new life. I don’t want to spy on her world through the window anymore. I want to be inside.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I pull the blankets over me. There’s a faint shimmer in my chest, like an ember warming my body with every breath I take. Maybe it’s just the pills. But maybe it’s hope.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“The hammock swings in time with her knee. In time with my body. Like she’s weaving me and everything around us into a song. I don’t know where I am or how I got here. Whether it’s been hours or just a few seconds.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“She’s backlit by the shadowy half-moon, like an eclipse.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“The sky is black and endless, as if the Earth abandoned its orbit for a forbidden corner of the universe that’s never seen stars.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“Her wife is a photographer who gets her up at the crack of dawn to hike to the top of the bluff so they can get good shots of the sun coming up over the saguaros at different times of the year. She’s probably got about a thousand of them by now, but I’ve never heard Sandy complain.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I can smell the honeysuckle from the garden and a crisp, smoky hint of fall on the breeze. I let myself forget everything for a moment, clinging to the emptiness of sleep as long as I can.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge

“I didn’t like all the things “shy” alluded to: Bitchy. Weird. Socially inept. But “shy” was better than “we know she’s hiding something.” I could live with shy.”
― Liz Kerin, Night's Edge