Paul Elwork > Quotes

“Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart.”
― Paul Elwork

“Sometimes Naomi marvelled at how much [children] seemed to know, how their chatter and play landed nearly square on adult matters of love and loneliness and disappointment and joy and regret. It sometimes seemed that they came to these things with clearer eyes than adults who talked themselves out of too much.”
― Paul Elwork, The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead

“It was a question of happiness, she reminded herself, another chance to replace death with joy and hope.”
― Paul Elwork, The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead