Christina Schwarz > Quotes

“She and Jon had been startled and a little frighented by his misery. What happened when you were married, she realized, was that, although you began as two independent people, you eventually grew in certain ways to accommodate your partner's weaknesses and let other parts of you atrophy in deference to his strengths. It was a fine system as long as it endured, but if you extricated yourself from it you couldn't help but be, a least for a time, deformed.”
― Christina Schwarz, So Long at the Fair

“That night the rain began to fall so thickly and heavily, it seemed as though the bowl of the ocean had risen into the sky and upended itself.”
― Christina Schwarz, The Edge of the Earth

“The problem is not that they haven't gone far enough, but that they've brought themselves along.”
― Christina Schwarz, Bonnie