Margaret Leroy > Quotes

“But life doesn't wait - it trickles between your fingers, trickles away....”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“I learned in that moment that there are different darknesses. That there is ordinary darkness, like the night in the countryside, where, even on a night with no moon, as you stare things loom, take form; and there is another darkness, a darkness so profound you cannot begin to imagine it, cannot conjure it up in your mind. A darkness that blots out all you remember or hope for. A darkness that teaches that all that consoles you is false.”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“I wonder what causes you most regret, in the final years of your life: the undone things-- or the things you did that you ought not to have done.”
― Margaret Leroy

“Going home to Millie; and the little boy who I know will rush into my arms when I get there; whose grey eyes will shine when he looks at me, who will smile with Gunther's smile.”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“Sometimes I feel as though the real things are passing me by. As though I've been pushed to the margins of life.”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“have learned”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“would”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“But life doesn’t wait—it trickles between your fingers, trickles away. . . . Does that sound stupid?”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“restharrow, a creeping plant with pink petals that grows everywhere”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife

“but war changes everything. Even the things you hope for.”
― Margaret Leroy, The Soldier's Wife