Tish Cohen > Quotes

“But there's a fact about someday that you can't possibly understand until it has settled upon you. Someday was doomed the moment you wished it into existence. You've already ruined it. By imagining it even once, you've created an expectation someday cannot possibly live up to.”
― Tish Cohen, The Truth About Delilah Blue

“It was becoming a pattern. The somedays of her life would teach her not to look forward to anything. Because life is passive agressive. Once it finally gets off its ass and allows you a wish fulfilled, that wish will come with a heavy price.”
― Tish Cohen, The Truth About Delilah Blue

“Answers, caloric sustenance, emotional distance.”
― Tish Cohen, The Truth About Delilah Blue

“There’s a thing that happens to a child who grows up thinking her mother doesn’t want her. That child can’t help but hold this knowledge like a cavity way at the back of her mouth. It’s ugly and tastes bad and convinces her she is unlovable to the core. For who could fall for someone whose own mother can’t stick around? But instead of turning against her mother, the child reveres her.”
― Tish Cohen, The Truth About Delilah Blue

“If we hold an umbrella over her head every time it storms, she's never going to know how it feels to have rain fall on her face.”
― Tish Cohen, The Summer We Lost Her

“Whatever. I like taking pictures. All these little moments. They matter more and more as time passes, because you can't get them back. Good or bad, you can't undo them. There's something right about that.”
― Tish Cohen

“Your job in life is to discover where your greatness lies. Because everyone has the potential to be excellent at something.”
― Tish Cohen, The Summer We Lost Her