Grace Flahive > Quotes

“Pain was going to come, sometime. Hannah had always known that. What we love will be taken away. And when we, ourselves, go, she thought, maybe we'd find it wasn't like sleeping at all, but like waking up.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian

“The light was different, like after a rainstorm, when the air seems sharper, gold or blue. A force that usually lay beneath life was closer to the surface, temporarily. It was letting them in on something, barely. It was letting them get some spooky, lucky sense before sinking away again.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian: A Novel

“Yes, life makes no sense, and yes, we'll all die someday, but how beautiful to be here, together, temporarily, with silly friends and silly jokes and absolutely no clue. I think that's something to celebrate.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian

“And just because we don't understand them yet, doesn't mean that certain things aren't so.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian

“Their future is our future and it's up to us to fight like hell for it today.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian

“How impossible to envision one season of life when you were sunk so deep in another.”
― Grace Flahive, Palm Meridian