87 Quotes by Jill Alexander Essbaum

If Iknow this, it's because I've seen it in a dream.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

How shall I unwind me from the spool of you?

You ran quite far and almostgot away. But I setfire to your ghost, and the sweet, sick hazeof that burning rosehas found you out.

It is like this every year—a baby kingis born to die, and I will sleep alone,failing at the very thing I fear failure of.

A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you.

No one is promised a tomorrow. She had been wrong about every man she loved or said she loved. She’d been wrong about everything. She’d entered into her life in the middle of its story. She had confused herself with the actress who portrayed her.

I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am

Walling herself off circumvented the risk of real closeness between two people and the eventual, unavoidable loss that always accompanies love. Liberating herself from the concern of others served a sinister purpose as well. There were fewer people to whom Anna was accountable. It’s the easiest way to lie and not get caught: make yourself matter to no one