Rain Quote by Carolyn Parkhurst

“Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth,…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“Walking out of the store with my parrot & sushi, I feel hideous, like everything I've done must be written on my skin. I…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“This is happening; this is not fiction. And the thing about life? It doesn't have texture at all. Go ahead, feel the space around…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“I remember my wife in white. I remember her walking toward me on our wedding day, a bouquet of red flowers in her hand,…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“Go on,"Lexy said. "What do you want to be today?”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

— Carolyn Parkhurst

What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

— Carolyn Parkhurst