87 Quotes by Jill Alexander Essbaum

I am not in pain, I am in sadness.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

I’m neither plain nor pretty. I’m irrevocably average.

And the dead stay dead. Like me, wiseto nothing tangible, not body, neither blood.

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief.

Perhaps, but I have eaten bitter decades upalready, just to choke on what issomething more divine than grief,having swallowed the glories such suffering brings.

I have tried you in the furnace of affection.

She could go anywhere she wanted. The going wasn’t the problem. The problem was belonging where she went.