J.R. Erickson > Quotes

“Death isn’t terrible,” Cass told him. “Not for the dead. It’s those who remain who suffer.”
― J.R. Erickson, Dark River Inn

“Before this life, beyond this life, there is no end. So, it’s easy to choose death because we know there will be growth for those left behind. And no one is left for long. We all come together again. It is only here in these physical bodies, bound by the laws of our physical world, that we forget that.”
― J.R. Erickson, Some Can See

“Evil needs people to look the other way in order to do its work.”
― J.R. Erickson, Come Home, Katie

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
― J.R. Erickson, Come Home, Katie

“birds. Those were the best days;”
― J.R. Erickson, Dead Stream Curse

“I knew the signs of grief, depression, hopelessness. But what did any of those labels matter when you waded through it, the muck as high as your neck, the future only more of the same?”
― J.R. Erickson, Calling Back the Dead

“Celeste”
― J.R. Erickson, Come Home, Katie

“All the cities where the girls had disappeared bordered the Manistee National Forest.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“Grieving a real tragedy is part of life. Grieving a disruption to your plans is a tragedy in itself.”
― J.R. Erickson, Still Falling

“Smiling at the barista who made my coffee this morning is as important as putting a murderer in prison.”
― J.R. Erickson, The Worst Kind: A Dear Celeste Novel

“Sometimes I wonder if women actually commit more crimes, it’s just the men who always get caught. Women are so much cleverer.”
― J.R. Erickson, Dark River Inn

“It’s a sickening aspect of our culture. This need to distort everything we love into money.”
― J.R. Erickson, Helme House

“Why does it seem like the prettiest plants are the invasive ones?” Garrett chuckled. “At the end of the day, even the invasive ones are just fighting for survival.”
― J.R. Erickson, Helme House

“When I say you need help, I’m not saying you’re broken. I’m saying you’ve been through a shitshow this last year and it’s going to take a power washer, not a garden hose, to get you cleaned up. Caleb and I went to couples’ counseling less than a year after we got married. It saved us. We would have been divorced otherwise. We all need help navigating the hard parts.”
― J.R. Erickson, Helme House

“The world might look modern, but human beings don’t evolve as fast as technology.”
― J.R. Erickson, The Worst Kind: A Dear Celeste Novel

“campfire smoke as the spirits of the trees rejoicing in being set free.”
― J.R. Erickson, Ashwood's Girls

“A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. And so do the trials of our lives shape us into beings of strength and courage”
― J.R. Erickson, Ashwood's Girls

“We’ve done our duty as citizens of the Earth and replaced ourselves. It’s up to somebody else now.”
― J.R. Erickson, Helme House

“Liam’s face darkened and for an instant, Katie sat beside him as if Celeste watched a movie screen and there was a sudden glitch, the girl appearing and disappearing in a split second. Celeste flinched and Liam looked around nervously.”
― J.R. Erickson, Come Home, Katie

“One evening, Carmen and her best friend Summer went for a walk in the woods. Ben and Carmen lived in a house about a mile away from the Manistee National Forest, which is like a huge forest on the west side of the state.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“After my family fell apart, the perfect little family, I was liberated. I quit the football team and joined drama. I stopped wearing my varsity jacket and the cool clothes of the time, and shopped thrift stores instead, buying sixties corduroy bell-bottoms and hitting the surplus store for army jackets and fatigues. I decided I was beholden to no one—least of all myself and those fixed ideals I'd developed that turned out to be little more than ant hills.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“The goal is to heal, not to create a new form of trauma. The child will not be healed by feeling they have finally beaten the beast. This is a parent, after all. It is hardwired in our biology to seek the love and support of this entity.”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring

“The fantasy is a farce, the Prince Charming, but happy is real. It’s not happy twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, but in the grand scheme of things, if the relationship is healthy, happiness is more prevalent than not.”
― J.R. Erickson, Bitter Ground

“Lori parked on the street in front of the Mulberry Café. The restaurant stood on the edge of downtown Clare,”
― J.R. Erickson, Darkness Stirring