Katie > Katie's Quotes

“What must it be like to want your parents' happiness instead of resenting them for it?”
― Samantha Young, The Impossible Vastness of Us

“Even if something just happened, it can still be history”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, It's Not Me, It's You

“At least Avery was keeping things in perspective. Imagine if she'd overreacted.”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, It's Not Me, It's You

“Like, I'm not saying that if Avery Dennis wore army pants and flip-flops, I'd wear army pants and flip-flops, but everybody knows who Avery Dennis is”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, It's Not Me, It's You

“I didn't like the feeling that Hutch has a place that's different from my place.”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, It's Not Me, It's You

“Is it weird that I am an expert on all of Avery's boyfriends? I feel like it's weird.”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, It's Not Me, It's You

“I've lost my inhibitions and apparently my mind”
― Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden

“I will not-cannot-trade my priorities, my values, my sense of worth, to be his second best.”
― Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden

“He grins, a sun-cresting-the-horizon sort of grin, and I want to lock it up and keep it forever.”
― Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden

“Does genuine emotion pardon unfaithfulness?”
― Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden

“I guess if we're talking about my anxiety, the even truthier truth is it started way before that.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“Frankly, I think that's all the evidence I need to conclude she's a psychopath.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“The biggest problem with never leaving your house is that people always know where to find you.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“The Sullivan family motto: Why Be Serious When You Can Be Sarcastic?”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“He used three exclamation points? That kind of irresponsible punctuation must mean something's up.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Love and Other Alien Experiences

“What if I scream?"
"Don't”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“Well, at some point, you're gonna have to break things down for me real slow-like”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“His voice was low and rough and I wanted to swallow it.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“I've always like bleachers, things ordered vertically from high to low.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I smile, because if it's not exactly a joke, it is sort of related to one.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I'm not sure why I've always assumed that the responsibility of a conversation falls on me.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“We are all strangers to each other in the end.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“Instead of trying to watch it happen differently, why don't you try to not watch it at all?”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Even here, behind the darkness of my eyelids, I cannot name the thing I hope for.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“There was nothing in the world I wanted more than to know what he had not said.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“True is what men believe, and they believe this of you.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Strange that such a small kindness felt like grace.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I keep my mouth shut, because I can't keep listening to this shit and giving my opinions without charging eighty dollars an hour.”
― Kara Taylor, Wicked Little Secrets