Jen Wheeler > Quotes

“Cat.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“Like love, grief was boundless, and eternal. It flowed all throughout a body and flooded all the space around it, drowned you again every time you took another breath. Only time would tell how much the tide might ebb, but sure as the sea was ruled by the moon, it would roll back in again. You would be touched by its swash for the rest of your days. And no matter who stood beside you in solidarity, you were an island, in the end.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“Because there were no such things as ghosts, except the ones trapped in living heads, haunting beating hearts. That was what she’d chosen to believe.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“pirates out”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“Grief comes and goes, but it never abandons you.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“Like love, grief was boundless, and eternal. It flowed all throughout a body and flooded all the space around it, drowned you again every time you took another breath. Only time would tell how much the tide might ebb, but sure as the sea was ruled by the moon, it would roll back in again. You would be touched by its swash for the rest of your days.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“Elijah looked awful, eyes and tongue the only lively things about him. “Like a hunk of old cheese possessed by some evil spirit.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island

“Like love, grief was boundless, and eternal. It flowed all throughout a body and flooded all the space around it, drowned you again every time you took another breath.”
― Jen Wheeler, The Light on Farallon Island