Paula Treick DeBoard > Quotes

“I’d lived long enough to understand that every family had its share of tragedy, large or small. No one got a free pass from heartache.”
― Paula Treick DeBoard, The Mourning Hours

“The place that I’d always felt was reserved for me—the little corner of the universe where I had lived every minute of my life—had disappeared.”
― Paula Treick DeBoard, The Mourning Hours

“Because one of the truths about a marriage—I knew that then, and I know it now—was that there should be some secrets. Small things, inconsequential things. I didn’t believe a person could ever know another person wholly, inside out, and I was okay with that. Because inside, there were some ugly things, the blood and guts, the things that were better buried, better unsaid.”
― Paula Treick DeBoard, The Drowning Girls

“Sonia mock-swooned, latching onto my sleeve. I was sure this was the most my arm had been touched, ever, and I had a blind mother.”
― Paula Treick DeBoard, The Drowning Girls

“E. L. Doctorow quote that I believe, too: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” How did you know you wanted to be a writer?”
― Paula Treick DeBoard, The Mourning Hours