Marisa Silver Quotes & Sayings

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child? — Marisa Silver

the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention. — Marisa Silver

Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder. — Marisa Silver

A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again. — Marisa Silver

When Doris had died so long ago, it was weeks before Mary could think clearly and remember what she was supposed to do the next minute and then the minute after that. Even though Doris had shown Mary how to get rid of the chiggers that burrowed under the skin or how to add potatoes to bread to make it heavy so it would fill a stomach faster, she had never explained how she had survived the death of a husband and the loss of a child. Parents never told their real secrets. They never let you know how they lived in the spaces between working and cooking and running after children and counting dollars. — Marisa Silver

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we? — Marisa Silver

But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it. — Marisa Silver

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives. — Marisa Silver

They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were. — Marisa Silver