Anna Cove > Quotes

“I spent so many years protecting myself from pain, but it brought its own kind of pain. A drugged kind of pain. The pain that numbs, that pacifies, that pushes all of your darkness down to a space you can't reach. You forget the darkness is even there, though it sucks in all the light you may have in your life, a greedy black hole.”
― Anna Cove, Sweet Surrender

“Then, I had been braver, certainly, and easier and lighter. I hadn't had the hive of bees curled in my chest, waiting for the ax. What had led me so far from that place? What had happened to the brave Julia? To ambitious Julia? The Julia who went after everything she wanted and actually got it?”
― Anna Cove, Sweet Surrender

“I wanted to gather all the pieces of myself I'd given her and bring them back to me, but even if I clawed at her with all my strength I would never find what I'd given her. It had sunken into her skin and it was lost forever.”
― Anna Cove, Sweet Surrender