Liz Michalski > Quotes

“They stay with us, you know. The friends you lost...They're still here. ... In this moment, they are alive to her, all of them. She lets the memories in, lets them settle everywhere. In her heart, in her skin, in the very breath she takes. She'll carry them for the rest of her days, whatever the future brings.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“To the Darling women. The stars are not only above us, they are in us. May we shine brightly, dream deeply, and fly high all on our own.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“Time stopped for Holly the day of the car crash. She's been defying death, defying time, for all these years & she's not going to stop now.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“Sometimes it’s easier to remember sorrow than joy,” Holly says. “Sorrow doesn’t hurt as much.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“located at the far end of a quiet, leafy street. It’s a comfortable brick cottage with a grassy yard and a few fat rosebushes climbing a trellis in the front.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“My mother’s throwing her annual fancy dress party for the holidays and if I am not there, she may actually kill me.” He gives a low, sympathetic chuckle. “Well, it was nice knowing you, if only briefly. I’ll look for your obituary in The Times,”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“Right now, she’s chasing fireflies through the dark, telling herself she has a chance at snaring the sun.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“Once the forbidden fruit has been tasted, there's no going back to paradise. For anyone. Even Peter Pan, it seems. Innocence, once lost, is impossible to regain.”
― Liz Michalski

“Sometimes it’s easier to remember sorrow than joy,”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

“He cocks an eyebrow. “Just like that? No need for introductions? No worries I’m a serial killer?” He has a point, but . . . “You haven’t met my mother. Death at your hands will be infinitely preferable,” she says.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl