“We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Funny how we can't hold onto time, even when it's strapped to our wrists”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“If you find me, take me home.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“In a sea of trees turned into a sea of total strangers, familiar means everything.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Wherever you are, I'll be there. Remember?”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Fake it through until you make it true.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“The snow wears moonlight like perfume.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“When he looks at her, I can tell his eyes are locked on something in the past--something that seared deeply and left the worst kind of scar: the inside kind.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“A world is a world is a world.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Good things come to those who let them in. All you have to do is take a chance.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“I hate her with the fury of gasoline set on fire. I burn for Jenessa, who deserves better than this, better than some screwed-up, drug-addicted mother, better than this chaos that always seems to find us, rubbin' off on us like some horrible rash.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“My stomach squirms like worms (in a good way) just thinking about him. And I reckon when love's in short supply, you know it all the more when it finds you.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“But I like how free sounds all poetic-like.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“But it's the eyes that hold me captive, empty of concentric creek ripples and breezy tree branches playing the sky like my bow plays my violin.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But, the most important thing is, even if we’re apart … I’ll always be with you.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Snow begins to fall, this boneless water turned mighty.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Music is a bridge, it connects folks on a higher level, saying what words can't say.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Mama says no matter how poor folks are, whether you’re a have, a have-not, or break your mama’s back on the cracks in between, the world gives away the best stuff on the cheap”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“I focus on the endless treetops scrapin' the sunset into gooey colors, the birds trillin' and fussin' at our departure. I close my eyes for a second, breathin' in deep to make serious memories, the kind that sick forever.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“There are notes for happiness too if you listen past the ache. Light filled notes that wing and soar, that fly by night like the violin constellation, serenading you home. I know because I've been listening for the happiness notes all my life, like a far off music I could almost hear but never capture, not even with my violin.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Music is a bridge, it connects floks on a higher level, saying what words can't say.”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
“Happiness is a song that plays you when you share it with the people who matter the most”
― Emily Murdoch, quote from If You Find Me
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