Aryn Kyle Quotes & Sayings

That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough. — Aryn Kyle

They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone. — Aryn Kyle

I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity. — Aryn Kyle

In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone. — Aryn Kyle

I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest. — Aryn Kyle

I just meant that dreams are sort of an opportunity. You can confront danger without actually being in jeopardy."
"Oh," I said. Opportunity was a good thing, a chance, a promise--the gift of drowning every night and never being dead. — Aryn Kyle

Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere — Aryn Kyle

Kate's unhappiness was like weather, a storm rolling constantly toward or away from her, a force she could feel approaching like a hum of electrical current across her skin before it broke open, soaking her in sadness, and she would have no choice but to brace against the misery until it wore itself out on her and passed on to someone else. — Aryn Kyle

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted. — Aryn Kyle

Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G
Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining.
She thought she might start looking for new friends. — Aryn Kyle

You tell us about your other friends. You feel guilty speaking about them, but you are annoyed, frustrated. You don't always trust their motives. You feel pressured by their demands on you. You're worn out by the effort it takes to be with them, to feign interest in their stream of never-ending problems. — Aryn Kyle

My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe. — Aryn Kyle

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them. — Aryn Kyle

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. — Aryn Kyle

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it's everything. — Aryn Kyle

Love. It is a word that means nothing and everything at the same time. — Aryn Kyle

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play. — Aryn Kyle

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems. — Aryn Kyle

It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks. — Aryn Kyle

Today will just be something else that they don't talk about, something else that probably never happened. — Aryn Kyle

The whole wide world was just a big pile of strangers, thinking all the time about everything they were missing. — Aryn Kyle

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business. — Aryn Kyle

What do you know about being sad?'
'I know you don't need a reason. — Aryn Kyle

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it. — Aryn Kyle

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone. — Aryn Kyle