Lila Raicek > Quotes

“His modest apartment had barely changed since the ’60s when he bought it from the wife of a renowned pop artist who used it as her pied-affaire.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“So I had loved him after all, with all of my emptiness, but now it was too late. Our love had only existed in the tenebrous hours, between the end of a storm and the coming of light.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“Deep inside me, somehow, the bare wires of love and pain had become tortuously crossed, so I could not feel the charge of one without the other.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“There was a biotech investor who revealed over dinner that he had spent the day with a secret elite group of visionaries at a secret elite conference, where they each had to share their most painful trauma. I asked, in my most empathetic voice, if he was willing to share his with me. He took my hand beneath a tower of oysters and said gravely: “When I realized I was losing my hair.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“I wanted a new disaster, glimmering and doomed, one that could obliterate the memory of all others.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“As writers, we live two concurrent lives. We live in multiple autobiographies. We are driven by the tension between our desire to reveal and to hide, by the push and pull between our exterior life and our interior one.”
― Lila Raicek, The Plunge

“I touched the inside of my thigh where a purple bruise had blossomed, an inkblot of evidence. How guilt, I thought, was no more than an irritant trapped in the soft shell of our bodies. How we, too, wrap it in layer upon layer to soothe the wound,
until it hardens into something unrecognizable, not a pearl, but an aberrant shape, a tumor.”
― Lila Raicek