Melanie Hooyenga > Melanie's Quotes

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Sometimes I wonder if I became a writer because of the stories I tell about Gen, or if I’m able to tell her stories because I’m a writer.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

“We’ve been heading for this moment since we first kissed, the inevitability of our demise as certain as Mom’s inability to crawl out of her mind’s defenses and join the real world.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

“The line between truth and fiction is nothing more than a shadow moving across a sundial, marking time by falsehoods and tears and a resentment that’s grown so strong it threatens to overwhelm my very existence.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

“Dad would argue tooth and nail that she loves us equally, but a good performer can tell when her audience prefers one show over another. Especially when you have the same audience night after night after night.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

“I live with the regret that I likely watched my sister spirited away from our stroller and out of our lives.”
― Melanie Hooyenga, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway