Kimberly McCreight Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Kimberly McCreight
Sure I can handle waiting for more bad news." "I know, Kate, and I'm sorry." His voice — Kimberly McCreight
Why are the bad things always so much easier to believe? It shouldn't be that way but it is every single time, you're too sensitive, and too worried they say, you care too much about all the wrong things. One little whisper in your ear and the words tumble through your head like you're the one who thought them first. Hear them enough and pretty soon they're etched on the surface of your heart. — Kimberly McCreight
Certainly she could never have exchanged pleasantries with anyone. What would there be for them to say anyway? Sorry? Sorry your daughter is dead, Sorry your daughter jumped off the roof of her school when you were on your way to pick her up. Sorry you were late. Too bad you'll be reliving that failure for the rest of your miserable life. — Kimberly McCreight
[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time ... As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked. — Kimberly McCreight
Sometimes, it feels like he's trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn't the same thing as understanding them. — Kimberly McCreight
It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize. — Kimberly McCreight
But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived. — Kimberly McCreight
Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered. — Kimberly McCreight
Not everything about where you're headed ... has to be about where you've been. — Kimberly McCreight
Contrary to previous assumptions, maternal depression can also manifest in a myriad of ways, many far different from what some might consider traditional depressive symptoms, including psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders. — Kimberly McCreight
In order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. E. M. Forster — Kimberly McCreight
Articles about things weren't the same thing as stories I'd made up. Those I wasn't ready for the world to pick apart, not yet. — Kimberly McCreight
Well, if it's for a paper, then my honest answer is that I think sororities are bad. I think they're terrible, actually. I think they make girls feel awful about themselves under the guise of sisterhood. — Kimberly McCreight
Simple" Kate had wanted to say, "I'm already dead. — Kimberly McCreight
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil, — Kimberly McCreight
Simple, Kate wanted to say. I'm already dead.
Instead, she'd pressed her lips together so hard it made her eyes water as she'd grabbed her prescriptions. The ones her therapist had assured her would help with the nausea and the insomnia. In reality, they'd nothing except make her feel as if she were underwater. Kate kept taking them in the hope she might eventually drown. — Kimberly McCreight
We're teenagers," Sylvia said. "we're all depressed. — Kimberly McCreight
It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be. — Kimberly McCreight
feelings existed in only one form: magnified. — Kimberly McCreight
Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall — Kimberly McCreight
Barbara had stopped by the PTA office to talk to some of the mothers there, and she may have said a thing or two about Rhea in angen And she /na! not have been careful about who was around listening. Had it been one of Rheas fellow teachers? Or, God forbid, Rhea herself? — Kimberly McCreight
Let go or be dragged. — Kimberly McCreight
That woman could raise her children in whatever substandard fashion she saw fit, but how dare she let the consequences of her casual neglect injure someone else's. — Kimberly McCreight
Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser.
Don't Be a Statistic. — Kimberly McCreight
Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning. — Kimberly McCreight
But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs. — Kimberly McCreight
One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of ridiculous. — Kimberly McCreight
And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I'd been intoxicated by his world of grays. — Kimberly McCreight
I can live with you hating me for that. I'll have to. I can even live with you not hating him. Just dont forgive him, Molly-not all the way. He doesn't deserve that. And neither do you. — Kimberly McCreight
This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed. — Kimberly McCreight