Kate > Kate's Quotes

“When you're struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try and manage theirs too.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“What are you, some kind of bullet magnet? You two ever consider wearing flak jackets 24/7?”
― Kate Angelo, Driving Force

“We don't turn to story to escape reality. We turn to story to navigate reality.”
― Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel

“God hears your prayers, Grey. Our world is broken and filled evil. It's our job as Christians to stand up and fight back the darkness. One way is through prayer.”
― Kate Angelo, Driving Force

“I believe God blessed us with special skills and talents and we can’t waste our gifts. We must use them to battle spiritual enemies as well as earthly enemies.”
― Kate Angelo, Driving Force

“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“But if I do know more than most, it's because I read. Books will teach you anything you want to know, and they tend to be more honest than people.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Books saved me, and I ran away inside the stories I read as a child. They were the only place where I could run, and swim, and dance without fear of falling and not being able to get back up. Books were full of friends and adventures, whereas my real childhood was cold, and dark, and horribly lonely.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker