Kate Karyus Quinn Quotes & Sayings

I found a quote from some guy that summed up the lucky thing pretty perfectly for me. It went like this: Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. — Kate Karyus Quinn

One after another, like dominoes set up and knocked back down, they climbed on top of the bridge railing, balanced, and jumped.
No, they didn't jump. Jump implies an understanding of gravity and a knowledge that up is only temporary. With spring-loaded legs and arms outstretched like Superman, those young men and women didn't jump. They launched. — Kate Karyus Quinn

People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too. — Kate Karyus Quinn

Everyone falls eventually," Piper told me. "You think it'll hurt. But it's falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it's kind of fun. — Kate Karyus Quinn

The thing is, secrets are awful in lots of ways, but they almost never lie. — Kate Karyus Quinn

I want certainties, not endless indefinites. — Kate Karyus Quinn

Sometimes you make bad choices to keep yourself from making other, even worse ones. Or at least that's what I tell myself. — Kate Karyus Quinn

Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand
too damning. — Kate Karyus Quinn

I'm sorry, I said, although by this point the words felt like a cheap shirt that has lost its shape after too many washings. — Kate Karyus Quinn

One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits. — Kate Karyus Quinn

Since you've been gone, Piper, I've become as bad with the sighing as Mom. Sometimes it's the part of a sob that I jsut can't hold back. Sometimes the sigh's more like blowing out birthday candles to make a wish. And sometimes I do it hoping that it'll make you appear - even for just one instant - to laugh at me and tell me to stop. — Kate Karyus Quinn