Faith Gardner > Quotes

“Life, it keeps going. That's pretty much all it is when you boil it down: perpetual motion.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Justice is human beings’ best attempt at making sense of the senseless.”
― Faith Gardner, What January Remembers

“Maybe joy is even more potent when you’ve known the depth of its opposite.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“It would be amazing if there were a reason for all this. A reason for her misfortune, a reason for her captivity and abuse, a reason for her return. I'm skeptical at first as we steep in the contemplative silence. But then I remember reasons are human inventions.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“I remind myself she left in one piece,”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Book clubs have never made sense to me. Books are where I go to escape people.”
― Faith Gardner, Amen Maxine

“Besides, the library’s the world’s best-kept secret,” he said, surprising me, because he never for one second struck me as a bookworm. “It’s the only place where anything’s possible and everyone will leave you alone.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“I like men who insist. Yes, I have issues.”
― Faith Gardner, Pearl in Deep

“I was relieved when that was ruled out. But I’ve been experiencing the splitting of the mind anyway, living in two realities at once. Though don’t we all to some degree? Actors on a stage. A reader scanning a page and imagining a world that doesn’t exist. A writer, a liar, a person who goes to a retail job and smiles at people they despise. Saying “fine” when someone asks how you’re doing. Aren’t we all splitting, all the time?”
― Faith Gardner, Like It Never Was

“We grow accustomed to the dark/ when light is put away.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Elliott’s Saturday is Scarlett O’Hara’s tomorrow.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Brownies might be kicking in. I’m quickly turning into a pile of goo on the couch. Dakota, who’s sharing my “chillin’ blanket” with me, gives my back a pat. “You all right there, soldier?” “I might be stoned. Or drunk.” “Droned?” Dakota tries. “Stunk,” I reply. We cackle like a couple of merry witches.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Jesus can’t help you now, love, he’s long dead. And has there ever been a man more overrated? Let’s not speak of him, please, not in my casa.”
― Faith Gardner, Like It Never Was

“The French have a term l’appel du vide, the call of the void—the brief, uncharacteristic pull you feel to hurl yourself off a high place for no reason at all.”
― Faith Gardner, Pearl in Deep

“Takes a lifetime to build a person and one second to end them.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“I had planned a life like this, contained in an apartment, surrounded by books, hanging on as long as I could. Wasn’t this life? Wasn’t this all it was?”
― Faith Gardner, The Prediction

“Give somebody the keys to your mind, you’d better make sure you trust them.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“The Pacific Ocean, love of my life.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Fear and love, that’s all there is.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“But there’s no way to heal without discomfort. If healing was easy, no one in this world would hurt.”
― Faith Gardner, Like It Never Was

“Life is a beautiful wilderness.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Wish we were just getting started.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“consider myself a word person, but I can’t tell you the plot of a book ten minutes after I finish it.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“Pepper spray,” I mutter to myself. “What the fucking fuck.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“But like love, goodness is never really unconditional. Push, push, push … at some point, somebody’s going to push back.”
― Faith Gardner, Like It Never Was

“Twinkle twinkle little star, I am dying in a car.”
― Faith Gardner, Eve in Overdrive

“if you’re gonna be miserable, at least get some shit done while you’re at it.”
― Faith Gardner, The Mirror House Girls

“I’ve got to keep busy, find something to clean, hum or sing or whisper to myself to fill the Big Empty. That’s what I call the inexplicable horror of being alone.”
― Faith Gardner, Breakneck Bay

“It hasn’t been easy for me to set boundaries, but I’ve learned that if I don’t, it means I’ve created no space for myself.”
― Faith Gardner, Eve in Overdrive

“It’s like, mind and body work in tandem, so she thinks she’s sick and then she convinces herself and it manifests in her body, so she actually is sick at this point. Her fake Lyme disease has totally crippled her for real.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers