Top 26 Emily Murdoch Quotes
#1. Funny how we can't hold onto time, even when it's strapped to our wrists
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#3. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.
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#4. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.
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#5. A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator as it grows fat and round. And then the book is born.
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#6. When he looks at her, I can tell his eyes are locked on something in the past
something that seared deeply and left the worst kind of scar: the inside kind.
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#7. We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.
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#8. If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But, the most important thing is, even if we're apart ... I'll always be with you.
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#9. My stomach squirms like worms (in a good way) just thinking about him. And I reckon when love's in short supply, you know it all the more when it finds you.
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#10. I hate her with the fury of gasoline set on fire. I burn for Jenessa, who deserves better than this, better than some screwed-up, drug-addicted mother, better than this chaos that always seems to find us, rubbin' off on us like some horrible rash.
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#11. I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?
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#12. Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears.
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#13. My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.
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#16. I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries.
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#17. Snow begins to fall, this boneless water turned mighty.
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#18. In a sea of trees turned into a sea of total strangers, familiar means everything.
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#20. Good things come to those who let them in. All you have to do is take a chance.
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#23. But it's the eyes that hold me captive, empty of concentric creek ripples and breezy tree branches playing the sky like my bow plays my violin.
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#24. My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone.
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#25. I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.
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#26. Mama says no matter how poor folks are, whether you're a have, a have-not, or break your mama's back on the cracks in between, the world gives away the best stuff on the cheap
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