Chris Womersley Quotes & Sayings

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. — Chris Womersley

Like a bizarre spider unaccustomed to its surfeit of appendages, four drunken soldiers lurched arm in arm down the passage. — Chris Womersley

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. — Chris Womersley

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it. — Chris Womersley

A story is a wondrous invention. — Chris Womersley

Stories are rarely only stories — Chris Womersley

His smile, he knew, was now lopsided and somewhat sinister, as if one half of him were amused while the other unimpressed by the same joke. — Chris Womersley

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible. — Chris Womersley

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end. — Chris Womersley

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all. — Chris Womersley

When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course. — Chris Womersley