Marja Graham

“One day, I promise myself. When Bennett and I are done with whatever war he’s waging. I don’t see it happening this week, but maybe one day when we’re older. When we love other people, and I feel whole without him. I’ll meet his children and love them because they have his features, even if they don’t have mine.”
― Marja Graham, The Summers We Left Behind

“Pretending to not know you is one of the hardest things in the world.”
― Marja Graham, The Summers We Left Behind

“I tell myself one last lie.
We never fell apart that winter. He’s waiting inside for me; all I have to do is walk through the door and return to him.”
― Marja Graham, The Summers We Left Behind

“Nighttime on the beach is the perfect place for lying. For spinning fantasies. We don’t acknowledge how often we lie to ourselves to make life more barrable. We only think of lies as betrayals, not the soft things that we use to survive.”
― Marja Graham, The Summers We Left Behind