Lila Raicek > Quotes

“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

“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