Emily Bleeker > Quotes

“appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“You can’t assume everything’s okay inside the house just because the paint isn’t peeling and the yard is neatly mowed.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“It’s the end that marks a beginning, not the first day.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“It wasn’t peaceful, no light at the end of a tunnel or any of that crap. Only fear and regret for all the things I’d left undone.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“It always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“What they don’t know is this: appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay. May”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“How could he find a future with someone if he couldn’t stop obsessing about what happened in the past?”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“She didn’t know yet that sometimes life makes different choices than you do. Stupid life.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“I don’t know how it’s possible to long for home and be glad I’m away from it at the same time, but it is.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“My only hope is that even if I have nightmares, they’ll be better than my reality.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“It sounded like something he definitely didn’t want to do, today or ever,”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Sometimes you have to lie. Sometimes it’s the only way to protect the ones you love.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“He’s sad, and sometimes sad comes out as mad.” “Hmm.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“At five years old, twenty was too large to conceptualize. Twenty dollars was a fortune, twenty toys a treasure chest, twenty minutes a lifetime, twenty years eternity.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“with her head cocked to one side, the reporter looked a bit like a spoiled cocker spaniel begging for a treat.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“We’ll come up with a story, a good story, and we’ll tell that instead.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“How could everyone else find it so simple to slip back into life, the world revolving, businesses opening and closing, buying and selling, when the pillow on the right side of his bed was empty every night? Luke”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“She was doing that thing where she took out her frustrations about something else in her life on the closest victim.”
― Emily Bleeker, Working Fire

“One of the things that surprised Lillian the most about lying was the rush.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“She suddenly hated the tooth fairy, with her fancy little wings and magic wand.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“of”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“I loved her weight in my arms. It was like I'd always been an unbalanced scale that was finally correctly calibrated.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“Our feet whispered through the grass as fireflies flickered in slow circles around”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“His”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“Lies, good ones at least, are smooth and well thought out. It’s the truth that’s sloppy.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“brought back all that pain and loss, tears not just filling her eyes but flooding her face and mouth and pouring down her neck and soaking into the collar of her shirt. The kind of crying that hurt, not in some existential way, but also made her chest, shoulders, throat, and head ache. “Damn you.” She gasped, pushing her fists into her closed eyes till stars appeared. “Damn you. Damn you. Damn you!” Sh”
― Emily Bleeker, What's Left Unsaid

“No one lives forever, Lillian.” I rub my cheek against her tangled hair. “Not on an island or at home in St. Louis. But we have a lot of living to do in between. We aren’t just going to”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“how peaceful he seemed; all Dave saw was the outline of gashes down his face carefully camouflaged for an open casket.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage