The Fates Will Find Their Way Quotes

“We packed our trunks and suitcases, prepared for our natural and necessary moves away from home. Outwardly, we breathed sighs of relief at the somber comfort of growing up. Inwardly, we held our breath and tried to stand as still as possible, afraid we might be the only ones who didn’t yet feel the promised call of adulthood.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“We were growing up. It was one of those moments when you could practically feel the adult pushing out, pushing forward into the world. Perspective suddenly existed where it hadn't existed before. This was just the beginning of our lives—our lives, things that we were responsible for, things that we could control. It seemed all at once too big and too simple an idea.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“Nora Lindell was gone. And, with Trey Stephens in jail, he was gone, too, in a way. By this time, we'd already lost Minka Dinnerman, as well (a car crash and cancer, respectively). It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who'd left us behind.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“This is where I want to be. For the first time, this is exactly where I want to be.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“Words like lucky and advantages we knew, even at our young age, were upscale euphemisms for not poor, not the son of a drunk and, later, not the son of a suicidal mother.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“A great deal of tenderness, but it was the tenderness of a hospice nurse - of one committed to caring but too familiar with pain and parting to every truly or fully invest.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“We were creeps, jerks, idiots. We were boys; we couldn't help ourselves.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“Certain outcomes are unavoidable, invariable, absolutely unaffectable, and yet completely unpredictable. Certain outcomes are that way.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“None of us was stupid. We were just dreamers.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“To imagine her with someone like us, but not us, that would be too much.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“We were boys, after all, which means we were creeps-our mothers' word-which means we were indiscreet and couldn't help ourselves when it came to trading what we'd done or not done or when and with whom and how... God, we were creeps! But children also, which is what makes it excusable-excusable but perhaps for this reason also frightening, disconcerting that there wasn't someone there saying no, stop, don't do that. At least don't do that yet. But there wasn't.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“I don't even exist. How can something that doesn't exist get in trouble? It's been the story of my life. One day here. One day there.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“She regretted skin. Yes, skin. That was it. More than anything she regretted the existence of skin-hers or anyone else's.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“It's the stuff of fantasies, not of real life. In fantasies, you can get into strangers' cars. You can have sex with men you don't know. They'll love you and pet you and whisper things that high school boys don't know to whisper. They'll fall hard for you and do anything you tell them to, including take you home whenever you want.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way

“And, suddenly, something new is now certain, something that we hadn't ever thought of before. There will come a day when we will think of Nora Lindell for the last time...Whatever the memory, we will think of her, wonder what might have been, and we won't even know it while it's happening, but it will be the last time we ever think of her. That day will come. It is a certainty now.”
― Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will Find Their Way