Kate Moretti > Quotes

“You can get anything you want if you're nice to people. People like to do things for people, it's so easy to be kind.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“There is endless psychological research on evil people. But in my experience the average sociopath has no idea they are wrong. They're born this way, not made.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“The greatest risk is not taking one.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“Everyone wants to be loved for who they are, even if we keep our true selves locked up and hidden. It's a nice little fantasy to believe that the right person holds the key and all the things you do not say are just somehow, magically, known.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“As a society, we’re insanely bad at predicting what the future will later prove to be fact.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“Illusions are dangerous . . . Ideas are infallible, people are not. Don't confuse the two.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“A million seconds is eleven days, while a billion seconds is thirty-one years.”
― Kate Moretti, The Spires

“There were many different kinds of prisons, she knew. And sometimes the ones you made yourself could be the most brutal of all.”
― Kate Moretti, The Spires

“Not knowing where to begin wasn’t a good reason to never begin at all.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“The one thing about having no one is that no one expects anything from you.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“Hannah thought it must be exhausting to live in a constant state of self-awareness. Worry about how every small movement would be perceived, when it was likely that no one was paying any attention to you anyway.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“She’d felt something: a pressure, a draft, the feeling of someone watching her, a quick huff of air on the back of her neck, making the hair on her arms stand up.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“I hugged her fiercely and kissed the top of her head. “Oh, Hannah, we never know how long people will be in our lives.”
― Kate Moretti, Thought I Knew You

“Illusions are dangerous.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“And then I remembered you. What you looked like. You were playing in the leaves with a little girl who had blond hair in a ponytail and wore a blue coat.” “Hannah had a blue coat, light blue. It’s Leah’s now.” “Who’s Leah?” he asked. He”
― Kate Moretti, Thought I Knew You

“The very best version of you.”
― Kate Moretti, While You Were Gone: A Thought I Knew You Novella

“But the best we can do is love people as much as we can while we’re together.”
― Kate Moretti, Thought I Knew You

“every terrible adventure is worth having if you end up with a good story to tell later.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“The Akashic record is a collection of all events, thoughts, words, emotions, everything that has ever happened to every person or ever will. It’s emotion. It’s spirituality. It’s facts and perception and truth and falsehoods. It’s overwhelming to think about. But allows us to understand our own existence and our loved ones more than we otherwise would.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“You have to feed these small creeks of knowledge, both the established ones and the new, baby ones; they’re the most fragile. Feed them by telling the same stories over and over again. The people in Greg’s life have to shift.”
― Kate Moretti, Thought I Knew You

“After college she lived her life the way everyone does in their twenties: selfishly. Bouncing from job to job, apartment to apartment. Figuring out how to pay bills and make doctor appointments and keep plants and fish alive. Then she’d met Huck, started what felt like her real life, and thought, fleetingly, about calling them. Visiting. It always seemed like she had time to figure out her relationship with her past. It was muddled in her confusion over Julia, if she’d loved Hannah the way Hannah had loved her. There seemed to be so much to work out, so much fog to break through, that it had seemed insurmountable. And now it was silly how possible it would have been. One day, make the drive. A lifetime of questions answered. She”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“She never got over what she did.” Uncle Stuart’s voice rumbled, barely audible, and his eyes were drooping shut. “She loved all of you so much.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“Women have girlfriends for this very reason: to bounce their irrationalities off each other.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“Everything now was so different: social media, the Internet, texting. It all sharpened people’s edges, made them the opposite of social. Turned them feral.”
― Kate Moretti, The Blackbird Season

“Henry and I have always talked about partnership, working together to make things work. He's always said he'd never divorce. That divorced rich men are inevitably poor men. That any marriage can be fixed, that love fluctuates.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“down”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“sleepwalked since she was a child, and now, suddenly, it was becoming a regular occurrence. When she googled it, she found correlations with stress and PTSD.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“They were mostly happy, until they weren't. I suppose that's true for most everyone.”
― Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year

“Young love”—she stumbled over the word, now when it mattered so much less—“is always fraught and messy. It’s how we all learn, how we form real relationships later.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill