Danielle Flood > Quotes

“I would be grateful for a brain transplant from a sharp octogenarian, so I could skip future surprises arising from the teenage decision-making process in which consequences are a vague, often-underused concept and drama is inevitable and exhausting. When”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“Without a watch or a clock, you cannot tell whether it’s day or night, and so it is a world created by its occupants.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“You have to watch out for Rejection Residue.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“It would be so easy to slip down into the black hole, become mute, tread in that mind’s place where speech and thought are pointless, but that would be a luxury.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“Except for what is in my mind, I have no privacy.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“I have been looking for home in my house again through these windows that are my eyes.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“My world is under her control, but I see that one day I could have freedom, in a sentence, or a paragraph, in many paragraphs, to tell the truth without her changing it.”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter

“I have to work mentally, skirting hard truths, because the fact is I live in the shadows of shame. I”
― Danielle Flood, The Unquiet Daughter