Charmaine Craig > Quotes

“What is falling out of love but a sort of crisis of perception?”
― Charmaine Craig, My Nemesis

“There is no safe love.”
― Charmaine Craig, My Nemesis

“No, when the herd wanted to take refuge in an idea, it preferred to be blind to that idea’s opposite.”
― Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma: A Novel

“Lack of courage keeps us from understanding others’ perspectives.”
― Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma: A Novel

“Their crime was their existence, Louisa had obliquely understood, and she had heeded Mama’s plea that they must not make a noise, taking each blow soundlessly, keeping her tears on the inside, until the lake of her grief had become so wide it had seemed almost inviting, a thing into which she could escape.”
― Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma

“But no you were going over the lecture on Saint Augustine and you were saying God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Well you were saying it with a good amount of mocking but I have seen from the start that you are a very sweet and immensely gentle being. And maybe you were thinking what I have come to. That sometimes it is necessary to go without human love so God’s love can touch us more completely.”
― Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma: A Novel

“But to be drawn into Charlie’s world was to become part of a very deep and ongoing conversation, to be pulled along the currents of his innermost thoughts and conflicts, and to be attended to intimately in ways of the heart and mind—and soul, if I’m honest. I had only to send or say three or four words to him for the faucet of his intimacy to turn on. He was right there, his rushing closeness right there. And then suddenly it was not.”
― Charmaine Craig, My Nemesis