Mary Kubica Quotes & Sayings

We walk quickly, hurrying to the car parked on Ainslie. — Mary Kubica

She's disoriented, her visions cluttered, random memories running adrift in her mind. — Mary Kubica

That I love her. That I'm sorry. — Mary Kubica

Instead, my mother suggested I write notes to my friend-turned-archenemy, Carrie. "Jot your feelings down on paper. Tell her how you're feeling," she said, with the PS: "Don't send the letters. Don't give them to her. Keep them to yourself. But once you get your feelings down on paper, you'll be able to move on. You'll be able to think through your emotions. You'll find closure. — Mary Kubica

She says that in Chicago she used to wish on airplanes because there were far more of those floating around in the night sky than stars. There — Mary Kubica

Another day the ladybugs arrive. Thousands of them, soaking up the sun on the back door. It's an Indian summer day, warm, with temperatures in the upper sixties and plentiful sun. — Mary Kubica

How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control? — Mary Kubica

I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology. — Mary Kubica

The kind of roommate who greets me at the door, who makes me dinner, who would bring me coffee and bagels every single day of the week if I asked her to. — Mary Kubica

The Chicago winter is harsh. But every now and then God blesses us with a thirty-or forty-degree day to remind us that misery comes and goes. — Mary Kubica

According to research, people who live with animals have decreased anxiety and lower blood pressure. They have lower cholesterol. They are more relaxed and less stressed and are, overall, in better health. Unless of course you have a dog who pees uncontrollably wherever it wishes or eats your furniture to shreds. — Mary Kubica

my very own knight in shining armor (he just doesn't know it yet) — Mary Kubica

I know how women are. A little camaraderie can fix anything. — Mary Kubica

But mostly I think of the things I didn't do. — Mary Kubica

Momma used to say, "We don't have much, but at least we have each other." And then one day, we didn't even have that much. — Mary Kubica

I've dated exactly three girls in my life, not a one that lasted for longer than two weeks. — Mary Kubica

The weathermen warn us for days of the impending snowstorm that's to arrive Thursday night. The grocery stores have run out of bottle water as people prepare to take shelter in their homes; my God, I think, it's winter, an annual certainty, not the atomic bomb. — Mary Kubica

But he holds me so tightly that for a moment, the emotions are at bay. The sadness and fear, the regret and the loathing. He bottles them up inside his arms so that for a split second I don't have to be the one carrying the weight of them. For this moment, the burden is his. — Mary Kubica

I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it. — Mary Kubica

As it was, being a bad mother was child's play compared to being a good mother, which was an incessant struggle, a lose-lose situation 24 hours a day; long after the kids were in bed the torment of what I did or didn't do during those hours we were trapped together would scourge my soul. — Mary Kubica

Anything so that we can stop talking about me and what an utmost disappointment I am. — Mary Kubica

But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer. — Mary Kubica

he'd say. Sacrilege. But Joseph never did — Mary Kubica

The goal with teenagers is simply getting through it alive, with no permanent damage. — Mary Kubica