Jennifer Haigh Quotes

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

Jennifer Haigh

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

Jennifer Haigh

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

Jennifer Haigh

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

Jennifer Haigh

Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.

Jennifer Haigh

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Jennifer Haigh

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

Jennifer Haigh