Lisa Tucker > Quotes

“Yesterday when I got off the bus, I walked to your taxicab first. I was attracted to the black-and-white squares along the roof and the bright green paint, but otherwise, there wasn’t any reason for my choice, was there?”
“No,” he said.
“Was there a reason that you were at the bus station rather than somewhere else in the city?”
“I guess not.”
“This is the charming coincidence. When things in the world that are unconnected suddenly connect, and a pattern emerges.”
He exhaled. “But what if the pattern wasn’t what you’d call charming?”
“It’s not the pattern that’s charming,” she said. “It’s that there is a pattern at all.”
― Lisa Tucker, Once Upon a Day

“I’m not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn’t have a reason. When suffering is unrelenting and unrelieved by love.”
― Lisa Tucker

“Off course, if Steven had a wife in the attic, like Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, that, I thought, would be another matter entirely. But the very idea made me laugh. His building had no attic, and his one small closet couldn't even hold a skeleton. It was too packed with clothes, his and mine.”
― Lisa Tucker, Once Upon a Day

“never have chosen to have a panic attack on that ordinary morning, riding the elevator up to his office. He certainly wouldn’t have chosen the breakdown that followed: the nine days during which he couldn’t think of going anywhere without having the panic start all over again.”
― Lisa Tucker, Agoraphobics in Love

“The sense of freedom amazed her. She hadn’t known the weight of her prison until she felt this freedom.”
― Lisa Tucker, Agoraphobics in Love

“The people on the agoraphobia board had been right when they’d claimed that the fear of panic is what really hurts you. If you can just manage to ride it out, you will find yourself on the other side.”
― Lisa Tucker, Agoraphobics in Love