Leah Mercer > Quotes

“I think how marriage doesn’t have the power to bind – only the actions of two people can do that. ‘Forever’ and happy endings aren’t a given, and life can be shit, just like the woman on the train said. But perhaps you do need to have faith, too. Faith in yourself, and faith in your relationship.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“I spend a lot of time inside my head. I like it there, blanketed from the world.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“Life was precious; life was fleeting. It could change in an instant, leading you down a different path than you ever expected. You could choose light - Hope - or you could choose darkness, dwelling alone in grief, uncertainty or pain”
― Leah Mercer, Safe from Harm

“But the thing is, no relationship is always going to be one hundred per cent happy all of the time. Things will change and develop. But you have to believe in the other person, and that your love is strong enough to get you through all of that. It’s kind of like taking a leap of faith.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“That bloody phone! He and his mobile have more of a relationship than we do, not that it would take much. ‘I”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“hardly eaten since . . . I can’t even remember when.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“It was the only place that remained unchanged in her life when everything else had shifted. And though she might be leaving, she had to make sure it stayed that way.”
― Leah Mercer, The Playgroup

“happy ending. Rest in peace. I jerk back. The beginning of our own happy ending? I don’t remember reading that before, but then, I could barely see straight at the funeral, let alone focus on the tombstone, and Edward took care of all those details. It’s an echo of our”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“God! This is why I’m barely home. I can’t stand the emptiness.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“happened, not me.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“She always said she came here to get away, so why would she bring the world with her?”
― Leah Mercer, Safe from Harm

“in”
― Leah Mercer, The Puzzle of You

“Okay, okay, I’ll go.’ ‘Good.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“As I watch the dancers bend and swoop, I can’t help wondering what would happen if someone lobbed a baby their way. Who would catch it: the man or the woman? Would it throw them off balance, or would the baby melt into them seamlessly? How would they embrace again – the same, all-encompassing way – if one of them always had to hold the child? They would never move with such abandon again, not as a couple. The”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“Any memories were just that: memories, echoes of events long past that couldn't breach my defences.”
― Leah Mercer, Ten Little Words

“box and I pull it out, then head back out to the lounge. Zoe’s exactly as I left her, frozen in place. When she sees what’s in my hand, her face breaks into a huge smile. God, I’ve missed the”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“Just like that, my husband is gone.”
― Leah Mercer, The Man I Thought You Were

“it seems like the blink of an eye. His little face – the face that was fading slightly, like a photo greying over time – bursts into technicolour. I close my eyes, trying to imprint the sharpness of the image on my brain before I lose it again. For just a second, it feels like he’s right there in”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“there a chance . . . a chance he still loves me? At the very”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“They'd both been through so much, living in their own private hells. They'd both clung to a version of reality ,of the future, that hadn't existed to help them through. But now that had been swept away. Now, they'd faced the pain of their pasts and they were still here... stronger than ever. Ready to face whatever might come”
― Leah Mercer, Safe from Harm

“This child is the most important thing in my world – in our world – and I’m going to make his life the happiest, the most fulfilling it can be. That’s my promise to him, and I’ll have to fall down dead before I break it.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“strong”
― Leah Mercer, The Puzzle of You

“marathon without stopping. A group of blokes about university age swarm past”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“I paused, holding the words in my head, savouring them until I was ready to let them go.”
― Leah Mercer, Ten Little Words

“screw my eyes shut and make a silent vow that from now on, I’ll do everything in my power to keep my child safe.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“I try to picture me going with him... driving away from this self-imposed prison and towards a new life. But I can't. I may have opened the door to my cell - I may have reached towards the light - but I don't think I can ever leave”
― Leah Mercer, Safe from Harm

“And if you don’t expect anything – don’t want anything in particular – then you can’t be let down.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“is small and dark,”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“And if you don’t expect anything – don’t want anything in particular – then you can’t be let down.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“to find something, anything, that would give me a”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before