Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from The Resting Place:
“it’s the body that panics first, the brain that follows. If I can just keep my breaths slow and force myself to relax then I can trick my mind into calm.”
“Your fear is valid, but that doesn’t make it real. The fear may be true, but it doesn’t have to be your truth.”
“Prosopagnosia, face blindness. It means my brain doesn’t process human faces the same way others’ do. I can’t recognize faces, so have to memorize distinguishing features instead.”
“Ta peur est valide, mais elle n'a pas besoin d'être réelle. La peur est vraie mais n'a pas besoin d'être la vérité.”
“So I boiled potatoes and cut them up, added mayonnaise and garlic and parsley just as Märit has shown me, and made a potato salad with red onion and capers.”
“I long for the day I can hate him. Then it will be easier. Then it won’t hurt to see him pull away, see him drown his sorrows more each day, see him fade and wither under the weight of what happened.”
“It feels like I’m being ground down by everything I want and don’t want.”
“Nice guys are always the best option,” said Märit. “Nice guys become good men. That’s the sort of man you want. They step up when they need to.”
“You can’t go taking responsibility for every little feeling the men in your life have, Victoria, I hear Vivianne’s voice in my head. It’s just the way they are, you know. Overemotional. They think they’re so strong, but we’re the ones who have to keep them in check.”
“Sebastian places his hand on my knee—gingerly, as though his fingers could bruise me at a single touch. We used to do more than just touch. But not anymore. Not since Vivianne died.”
“wounds can leave scars on our souls just like on our bodies, and that we have to learn to live with them rather than try to rid ourselves of them completely.”
“An eye for an eye makes the world blind,”
“She says that wounds can leave scars on our souls just like on our bodies, and that we have to learn to live with them rather than try to rid ourselves of them completely.”
