Emily Ruth Verona > Quotes

“A new year for new sins.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror

“Life is going to happen whether you’re scared or not. So you might as well live it.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“I clutched the handle of the door. Squeezed it. Settled my other hand along the doorway and prayed. Not for anything in particular. Just for the sake of doing it. To see if it would change things. To see if it would change me.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“Larry used to say death ran in our family. When I would tell him that it ran in everybody's he'd simply hunch forward, hold up a finger and shake his head. 'Not like in ours,' he'd say, 'Not like in ours.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“You never know which will be the one. The thing which takes all those whens and maybes and transforms them into something tangible. Something outside of your dear and tender imagination. Over the last nineteen years I began writing dozens of novels and completed three of them before beginning the one. The first to be published. The first to change everything.”
― Emily Ruth Verona

“Only, she’s not laughing. Not curling up into a ball. There are no closing credits. No sequels. Because she’s not a movie heroine. She’s flesh and blood and bone. And when the sun comes up, she’ll still feel like hell.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Peeking out the beige-brown blinds, she spots the tiniest sliver of a moon hanging in the sky. As if someone had come and cut out the night, exposing the white, bruised underbelly of the universe. There are few things she knows to be as beautifully, hauntingly quiet as a night sky.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Experience and trauma cannot be coaxed, threatened, thrown out. They’re more complicated than that. They imprint themselves on the brain. Scrawled across the soul in memory.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“Cheap thrills are the only kind of thrills that don’t turn her into a hyperventilating disaster. That’s what happens when it’s life, not some movie, keeping you up at night.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street

“There's always something about people who have known each other since childhood. Explanations meant very little to us. Excuses meant even less.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“Facts. Smooth, flat, undeniable facts. If only I could keep them straight.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“Not that it disappears entirely. Panic is like the clingstone pit of a plum nestled in her stomach—her very core. She’d have to gut her own insides to shake it loose. The best she can do is manage it, and she’s rather good at managing it. Pretending to manage it. She wonders if this makes her an excellent liar.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Midnight on Beacon Street