15 Quotes by T. Greenwood

And I think about how I used to be the one who fixed things. How I used to be the strong one. When did this happen to me? What have I become? Effie.

Don’t you hate waking up after the day’s already started?” Jake usually asks, like it’s a race. As though by the time I roll out of bed I’m already lagging behind everyone else, as if I’ll never be able to catch my stride.

I feel my skin growing warm. But it isn’t the fact that Gussy told Effie about Eva, about everything that happened, but rather that someone would see beauty in the story. The idea that someone could hear about what happened all those years ago and not be disgusted, horrified, by all the tragedies that followed, that someone could find a sliver of the goodness, the beauty, I cling to is almost more than I can handle.

When you have suffered betrayal by the universe, a betrayal by a man is not only unsurprising but expected.

We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.

People say we are defined by the choices that we make;.