Alretha Thomas > Quotes

“She must sense we’re annoyed because she unleashes a flurry of words that make me think at one point she’s speaking in a different language.”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa

“I sit bolt upright in bed, my heart pounding, and my mind racing with thoughts about my twin. I pull my knees to my chest, wrap my arms around them, and rock back and forth. The movement calms me. When I turn toward my nightstand, my gaze locks onto the clock. It can’t be one-thirty. The”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa

“I’ve never seen her with the Sunday night blues—the bleakness that hits you when you know the weekend’s coming to an end and you have to report to work the next day.”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa

“Once you get fixated on something, you go overboard, and you have no idea what you’re going to come up against.”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa

“normal is a setting on a washing machine and not what our lives are supposed to be.”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa

“Relieved, I wait anxiously for her to kick-start the next round of stimulating conversation.”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa

“I dig into my Cobb salad, waiting to jump knee deep into the subject I really want to talk about.”
― Alretha Thomas, Missing Melissa