Erika Robuck Quotes & Sayings

I often thought grief was like madness - the lack of control, the overwhelming waves of emotion with unexpected triggers, breathlessness, night sweats, nightmares, and the feeling of utter aloneness, like that of standing on a ledge in a violent wind. — Erika Robuck

Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often. — Erika Robuck

I look back at the glimpse of light in the center of Magdalene, near her heart, and remember the beauty to be found even in sorrow--beauty as a result of transformation, an admission of weakness, and a total dependence on the Creator. Even in the darkest hour, our hearts can allow us to see the light. — Erika Robuck

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all costs--and that will lead to war. I might be more a successful writer if I did not seek to address human truth, but rather spewed out my own limited opinions without care for reader or critic or any kind of propriety. — Erika Robuck

I had withdrawn from the townspeople in as many ways as possible, thinking my isolation would be less painful if it came on my own terms. — Erika Robuck

A storm of yellow notepads, broken pencils, papers, and books littered the tables and floor of the room, along with a collection of empty beer cans. It looked as if a party of wild librarians had just cleared out. — Erika Robuck

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls. — Erika Robuck

Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose. — Erika Robuck

The thing about trips is that all the trouble is in the anticipation. — Erika Robuck

The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain. — Erika Robuck

Mariella felt as if there were signs all around her that losing what you loved was worse than never having it to begin with. — Erika Robuck

It was so good going down, but the aftertaste made you damn near hate it. — Erika Robuck

Not longevity. Not peace. Not some chloroformed happiness. Not tranquility. They are all such common goals ... No. I want audacity. High color. Total independence. — Erika Robuck