69 Quotes by Vera Jane Cook

I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must.

life reveals that which we may never have guessed, that some people are so undeserving of us.

She was well aware that the heart never breaks just once, it cracks open a million times across the span of a person’s life and as long as she kept living it would break again.

Life must be much more evident when one is always suffering.

I been sitting here by Millie's grave trying to figure out death, but it's a hard mystery to unravel. I don't know why God gives it to us to bear 'cause it leaves so deep a scar when we lose a loved one. We make up all these dumb clichés to try and explain what happens after death but not a one of them makes a lick of sense to me. Thinking there's a heaven somewhere don't mean shit. I have no guarantee of any heaven and having faith in something I can't see makes me feel like a fool.

He put his head up to the sky and closed his eyes. The tear that fell down his cheek glistened in the sun and remained there, like the impression of a scar

She didn’t want to go to that place, and she had to force herself not to, but it was standing between she and her father’s memory; to keep him close she’d have to allow the ache

When friends stopped coming by, the days were upset by it, the redundancy of routine, once altered, needed to find new distractions, like puzzle pieces that need connection in order to form a whole.

Damn house was quiet now, even her cat walked too softly to hear.