“When a lifeline comes, you don’t evaluate whether it’s the right one. You just grab for it, and hold on.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Adulthood Copy Share Image
“The law—with each side’s relentless pursuit of one story—has never known what to do with this complicated middle ground. But life is… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Law Copy Share Image
“So I try something new. Not turning my back to the past, not fleeing it, but extending a hand. I say to… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Time Copy Share Image
“I knew it was gonna rain,” she tells them. “But I’m kind of glad, because it’s like the angels in heaven are… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Angels In Heaven Copy Share Image
“This is the logic I will never find an answer to, the way in my family a hurt will always be your… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Family Copy Share Image
“Lyme disease is new then, barely known. The doctor hasn’t tested me for it. We can see only what we have a… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“All of these events, we would understand, were tangled together- no one cause, no one beginning.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“Consistency is what we prize, and coherency, and reason, and to be true to our ideals so that they fit together into… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Consistency Copy Share Image
“But is an act ever really only about itself? Does any element of this story occur in isolation? I” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“But strangely, I am all right. The world I belong to now is the one in the books I read. When I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Books Copy Share Image
“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Book-lovers Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Barefoot Copy Share Image
“If we acknowledge only the happy things, maybe that’s all there will be.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Happiness Copy Share Image
“we are prisoners of the story we tell about ourselves, the story of the parents descended from poor immigrants who made it… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Children Copy Share Image
“happened in the past. “But if you ever hear about it, don’t worry,” he said, his words a little slurred by drink.… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Time Copy Share Image
“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Childhood Copy Share Image
“But I look at the man on the screen, I feel my grandfather’s hands on me, and I know. Despite what I’ve… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“The Louisiana night is thick with cicadas, with stars, with a silencing of the man-made that can make possibility stretch out before… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“Like so much else, these years before the murder come down to what it always comes down to with Ricky: What do… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich New life Copy Share Image
“What I fell in love with about the law so many years ago was the way that in making a story, in… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Law Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that every family has its defining action, its defining belief. From childhood, I understood that my parents’… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Children Copy Share Image
“The boys’ attention frees me to feel loved. The boys are a threat. I don’t know how to recognize when love and… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Love Copy Share Image
“The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Hope Copy Share Image
“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Beauty Copy Share Image
