Katherine Howe Quotes & Sayings

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole. — Katherine Howe

My life was such a careful balance, a fragile nexus of work and attention and preparation and planning, like the old vaudeville trick of spinning plates on poles all over a stage, running from one to another to another, not letting any of them fall. I'd been so good at it, the running and the spinning. I'd been getting up before dawn and staying late after school and running and spinning the plates for as long as I could remember. I was getting so tired. I didn't want to run and spin anymore. But I didn't know what would happen, I didn't know who I would be, if one of the plates broke. — Katherine Howe

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. — Katherine Howe

When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered. — Katherine Howe

Of course, it was a rather hard lot, to be cherished. The beloved can so easily disappoint when they inevitably prove to be human. — Katherine Howe

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real. — Katherine Howe

Every memory we have changes slightly each time we think about it. We add stuff we learn in other places, or we forget stuff that doesn't seem important anymore. Or you think you remember something, like from your childhood, but actually you've just seen so many pictures of it, and your parents have told you about it, so you think you remember it, but you don't. A memory is a process. Instead of a thing. Like a story we tell ourselves that changes from the standpoint we're looking at it. — Katherine Howe

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have. — Katherine Howe

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments. — Katherine Howe

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way. — Katherine Howe

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full. — Katherine Howe

Everyone has wounds as want healing. Seems like they all find me. — Katherine Howe

When she said that last part, she raised her eyebrows, or at least, I thought that's what she was trying to do. The Botox made it so all she could do was widen her eyes until they bulged. — Katherine Howe

Just because you don't believe it[] [ ... ]doesn't mean that it's not true. — Katherine Howe

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view. — Katherine Howe

You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This ... person
she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died ... I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away. — Katherine Howe

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all. — Katherine Howe

Her freckles were delectable. Most fellows didn't care for freckles as a rule, thinking they were tough-looking. But Betty's were appealing. Like cake batter you could wipe off with your thumb, buttery and sweet. — Katherine Howe

But an attentive researcher
like you
might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions. — Katherine Howe

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back. — Katherine Howe

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him. — Katherine Howe