Elizabeth Bromke > Quotes

“Amelia fussed with the memorial setting, which she had first established on a second square folding table, only to move it to the coffee table, and then finally to the back of the upright piano that took up the far corner of the room. “Does this work?” she wondered aloud.”
― Elizabeth Bromke, House on the Harbor

“thing that most well-raised children did. He packed and left for college.”
― Elizabeth Bromke, The Farmhouse

“A defensive prickle climbed up Amelia’s spine, though she wasn’t sure who to defend. Poor handsome Michael? The man with his life together who was just trying to do his job? Or their mom, for weaving a web of secrets and promptly dying before a final showdown. “Michael’s just trying to help,” she started, trying again on her coffee, this time with more success. “And Mom was from a different time. A different era. She didn’t live her life online for the whole world to see. Of course we have to claw through some cobwebs.” Amelia involuntarily rested her gaze on Megan’s phone.”
― Elizabeth Bromke, House on the Harbor

“just a stone’s throw one from th’other. But whereas Esther shared her life with twelve siblings brung up on a sprawling family farm, Billy Coyle was an only child brung up down in a holler just north of Brambleberry. And whereas Esther’s daddy raised tobacco and bootlegged moonshine, Billy’s daddy dug graves. That’s how Billy had come to take up a job in the morgue at Louisville”
― Elizabeth Bromke, Home to Brambleberry Creek

“That’s what happened when you lost your world. You lost your comfort, too.”
― Elizabeth Bromke, The House Around the Corner

“acceptance didn’t mean she didn’t”
― Elizabeth Bromke, The Country Club

“recruiting”
― Elizabeth Bromke, The Garden Guild

“asked.”
― Elizabeth Bromke, The Country Club

“sacrifices”
― Elizabeth Bromke, House on the Harbor

“showed”
― Elizabeth Bromke, House on the Harbor

“good”
― Elizabeth Bromke, House on the Harbor