Miracle Creek Quotes

“There's something, though, about the sounds that other people make. Not talking, necessarily. Just the sounds of living - creaking upstairs, humming a tune, watching TV, clanging the dishes - that blot away your loneliness. You miss them when they're gone. Their absence - the total silence - becomes palpable.”
― Angie Kim

“...sometimes, when you were guilty of something, others' pretense that you weren't responsible was the unbearable part. It was infantilizing, demeaning.”
― Angie Kim

“In the distance, beyond the stretch of burned, dead dirt, beyond the carcass of the submarine now slowly moving away, a patch of wildflowers in yellow and blue stood, and looking at it, she felt her despair displaced by something simultaneously heavier and lighter. Han. There was no English equivalent, no translation. It was an overwhelming sorrow and regret, a grief and yearning so deep it pervades your soul - buy with a sprinkling of resilience, of hope.”
― Angie Kim

“That was both the best and worst part, that all that happened was the unintended consequence of a good person's mistakes.”
― Angie Kim

“There's something, though, about the sounds that other people make. Not talking, necessarily. Just their sounds of living - creaking upstairs, humming a tune, watching TV, clanging dishes - that blot away your loneliness. You miss them when they're gone. Their absence - the total silence - becomes palpable.”
― Angie Kim