122 Quotes by Laura van den Berg

She felt like someone had carved her heart out of her chest and then turned her loose to stumble through a dark forest on a frigid night.

What exactly were the rights of the dying? Were they really so boundless?

Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?

Easygoing"--that was the world people used, and in time she became suspicious of anyone who could be described in such terms. What was so easy about going?

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, Clare said, with bitterness. What doesn’t kill you leaves you alive, Richard countered. She spat water onto the floor. What doesn’t kill you only leaves you feeling broken and insane.

A nightmare becomes a nightmare when you start to believe it will never end.

Easygoing” – that was the world people used, and in time she became suspicious of anyone who could be described in such terms. What was so easy about going?

Horror films had taught her that a person could will a thing into existence, but once it was outside their consciousness, the consciousness that had been busily inventing simultaneous possibilities, it became a force unto itself, ferocious and uncontrollable.

She might have said, I am not who you think I am. She might have said, I am experiencing a dislocation of reality.