Elske Rahill > Quotes

“Her children are pulling her thin. Each of them, as they left her body, tugged a part of her with them out into another life. She is divided by each of them. She will die like the mint plant at the end of the garden. Last spring, its babies sprouted out from its roots, and all through the summer, the mother plant remained, a bunch of dry yellow twigs. She never dug it out.”
― Elske Rahill, An Unravelling

“For now, they are surviving. But he has given up too much. When their children are grown there will be a reckoning.”
― Elske Rahill, An Unravelling

“Making a marriage work, her mother had told her, was largely about learning to like things that might at first seem tiresome. ‘And the secret,’ she said, ‘to a really happy marriage is to make him believe he is in control.”
― Elske Rahill, In White Ink