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title: "2 Bleak Quotes By Ellen Airgood"
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> [“Apartments in Crosscut weren't just depressing. They were wrist-slittingly bleak, and not quite as cheap as Madeline had imagined.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/apartments-in-crosscut-weren-t-just-depressing-they-were-wrist/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

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> [“It was all mixed up, beautiful and bleak, both.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/it-was-all-mixed-up-beautiful-and-bleak-both/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

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## More by Ellen Airgood

> [“She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/she-stroked-one-of-the-geranium-s-petals-inhaling-its-particular/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“It appeared that a great part of victory--or at least survival--was simply a dogged hanging on.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/it-appeared-that-a-great-part-of-victory-or-at-least-survival-was/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“Looking out toward the open water she thought they could have floated in time, landed anywhere in the last thousand years.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/looking-out-toward-the-open-water-she-thought-they-could-have-floated/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“You've given her a new lease on life.' 'She didn't need one. She owns life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/you-ve-given-her-a-new-lease-on-life-she-didn-t-need-one-she-owns-life/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“Apartments in Crosscut weren't just depressing. They were wrist-slittingly bleak, and not quite as cheap as Madeline had imagined.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/apartments-in-crosscut-weren-t-just-depressing-they-were-wrist/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/the-fourth-was-perfect-she-d-make-a-ceremony-an-event-of-this-she-had/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/madeline-knew-how-that-was-so-many-people-had-ideas-of-what-you/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/the-basket-would-never-make-her-famous-or-end-up-in-a-museum-the-best/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“It was all mixed up, beautiful and bleak, both.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/it-was-all-mixed-up-beautiful-and-bleak-both/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“She walked, and with each step she let another inch of the long furl of her expectations go. The place itself was like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/she-walked-and-with-each-step-she-let-another-inch-of-the-long-furl/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“She hunkered down, stared across the horizon. Felt the vast cold world spread out all around her and was reassured by the impersonality of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/she-hunkered-down-stared-across-the-horizon-felt-the-vast-cold-world/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“You know, people thought it was so sad that I gave up so much to take care of Emmy, but it wasn't sad. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/you-know-people-thought-it-was-so-sad-that-i-gave-up-so-much-to-take/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

> [“It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-airgood/it-was-more-that-he-did-better-being-busy-keeping-to-a-routine-it/)

[Ellen Airgood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-airgood/)

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