Carla Buckley > Quotes

“Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.”
― Carla Buckley, The Things That Keep Us Here

“...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.

The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.”
― Carla Buckley

“The first time you hold your baby and see she's all right, you breathe a sigh of relief. You think you've crossed the finish line. You don't realize that the race had just begun.”
― Carla Buckley, The Good Goodbye

“Until she started teaching, Ann had no idea how much personal stuff children revealed in the classroom.”
― Carla Buckley, The Things That Keep Us Here

“Things change, I see, but they can stay the same, too. —”
― Carla Buckley, The Good Goodbye

“The first time you hold your baby and see she’s all right, you breathe a sigh of relief. You think you’ve crossed the finish line. You don’t realize that the race has just begun. —”
― Carla Buckley, The Good Goodbye

“I lift my head and look at her. “I thought she”
― Carla Buckley, The Good Goodbye

“Sending a child to college is drawing that line in the sand. Your child walks over it and she’s not your little girl anymore. She’s just not.”
― Carla Buckley, The Good Goodbye

“You ever get lonely?” “Sometimes.” Loneliness breathed on my neck in the middle of the night; it walked beside me as I grocery-shopped, drove to work, cleaned my apartment.”
― Carla Buckley, Invisible

“first I thought it was a deer. You know how they run across the ravine”
― Carla Buckley, The Deepest Secret

“You went through Arden’s things? You had no right!”
― Carla Buckley, The Good Goodbye