Sally Kilpatrick > Quotes

“Ma’am. Being older is not a crime. It’s a gift,” Mom said.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“I shared an oh-boy-more-therapist-speak look. Rachel had been going to therapy where, among other things, she’d learned to reframe apologies into statements of gratitude.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“a good five minutes I considered cooking. In the end I made a sandwich of peanut butter, jelly, and resignation.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Familiar mahogany-stained pews with red velvet cushions sucked the light from the interior.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, The Happy Hour Choir

“As I watched the video of Abi and Rachel—and, yes, me—laughing, I came to an important realization: it was so easy to live life on autopilot and not see the people who truly loved you and supported you.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Life doesn’t come to us in perfectly centered frames or precisely performed moments.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Everyone was talking about self-care these days. What even was self-care? I looked at Mom and simply asked, “How?” “Think about what you want.” I put my sandwich down. “I don’t know.” “You may have to ask yourself what you don’t want in order to figure out what you do want.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“hurt. I didn’t raise you to cuss at your mama or to take the Lord’s name in vain. Or treat anyone with such disrespect.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“worse. “I want to fix everything for you, but I can’t. Believe me, I’d take your hurts for you in a heartbeat if I could. But, Vivian, when are you going to realize that you’ve been hurting me, too?” Her question came like a gut punch, and I sat on my edge of the bed. I couldn’t have answered if I wanted to because . . . she was my mother. Did mothers hurt? Of course they did, and I would know because I was a mother, too. Shoulders slumped, she returned”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Besides, I had been catted. I could not possibly get up and answer the door if a cat was sitting in my lap.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Right and wrong are pretty darn subjective. We’ve both been doing the best we could, and that’s motherhood.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“For once in my life, this was good news. I would be who I wanted to be.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“All you have to do is cut out bread and wine for a couple of weeks.” As if. Bread and wine were essential. Jesus told me so.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Well,” Mom said. “That’s about to change. You’re going to learn to take care of yourself.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Sorry I’m late,” Rachel said. “I mean, thank you for waiting on me.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“There ought to be a law that only good sex could lead to pregnancy. It didn’t seem fair at all that bad sex could—”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“thought”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“in”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Rachel had been going to therapy where, among other things, she’d learned to reframe apologies into statements of gratitude. We”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Her eyebrow arched, and she took the comfort of her hands away. “Vivian Loraine, I love you with all my heart, but I don’t like you very much right now.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“it was so easy to live life on autopilot and not see the people who truly loved you and supported you.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Everyone was talking about self-care these days. What even was self-care?”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Better to be alone than to be with the wrong person.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“It was then, on the eve of my mother’s second divorce, that she gave me her rules for navigating the institution: 1. Don’t drink your feelings. 2. Never let him know he’s hurt you. 3. Don’t ever jump from one man to another. Ever. 4. Check all your joint bank accounts as soon as you find out, and keep records on everything. 5. Hire the best lawyer.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“My eyes locked on the banana tree at the end of the counter. I felt like those bananas—bruised, blackened, unwanted. I couldn’t get used to not buying so many now that Dylan had gone off to college.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“now. We need a little space in our togetherness.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“but I’d never really lived up to the slacker part of being a Gen Xer until recently. Since reality really did bite, I supposed I owed it to the world to be a slacker at least once in my life. Now seemed particularly good.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Something about the patience of a man could make a woman want to rush forward.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect

“Mom surprised me by taking the stage next. She sang George Michael’s “Faith,” and I had to admit I felt much better as I sang along. Maybe all I needed was some time to pick my own heart up off the floor.”
― Sally Kilpatrick, Nobody's Perfect