No One Can Know Quotes

“A pregnancy wasn’t a promise.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Emma.” She didn’t understand how her name on his lips could have that kind of power, to mean a thousand things a once. It was a question, an invitation, a plea.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“He’s dead. He doesn’t care what you say about him.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“And that was her fault, wasn’t it? She was the reason that Emma had to learn silence. Learn how to hide. Emma had never bent a millimeter to protect herself from their parents, but to cover for JJ she’d broken herself completely. And JJ had don’t nothing to earn it.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Hadley wanted her to believe that her mistake back then had been covering for her sisters when they didn’t deserve it. He was wrong. Her mistake had been covering for them without understanding what had happened.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“She sees in his eyes that he wishes he could save her. She knows the cost of trying would be too great, but still she wishes he would.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“She realizes with a slow seeping defeat that she never did want to go anywhere. She only wanted to be gone. In her fantasy, she disappeared into that night, and there was no other ending but that.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“The older she got, the less she thought she knew anyone at all.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Of all the people who had asked her questions about that night, Best was the only one she had ever thought believed that she was innocent. And the strange thing was, he was the only one it didn’t matter to. He would have done everything the same either way. He would have done his job.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“After my parents died, everyone I knew disappeared. They wouldn’t talk to me. Didn’t want anything to do with me, really. I figured if everyone hated me that much, they couldn’t all be wrong. I decided I had to start over. Take myself apart and build someone new. Someone who had nothing in common with the old Emma Palmer. I made myself into a stranger and I found someone who could love her, but I couldn’t ever let him find out who I was. And then he did, and he died.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“She is rarely on the receiving end of her father’s punishments. She’s better than even Juliette at understanding what he wants. Juliette thinks it’s only obedience, but really it’s devotion.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Her parents had tried so hard to make her small, and she'd fought every moment of it. But for Nathan Gates she'd simply surrendered.
She couldn't do it anymore. She couldn't bend one more inch. Not for him.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“When had she decided that it was better to be miserable than to be alone, she wondered. Or had that always been the price she was paying?”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“She gritted her teeth. Talk about a thing too much, you're obsessed. Talk about it too little, you're hiding something. And no such thing as a middle ground. She could never get it right. The perfect balancing act of the right way to speak, to be, to look, to feel, so your innocence could be confirmed. Once you were tainted you could never get clean.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“You are safer forgotten.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“No, she wasn't acting like herself—not the Emma that he knew, at least. Not the Emma she had created painstakingly, a rebuke to the girl she had been. But now she was home, and that old Emma had been waiting for her here the whole time. A ghost in this house.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“As if by erasing the words he could erase what they meant.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“He wasn't very good at reading people. That was one of the things she liked about him.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Worry when it looks perfect, because that means you’ve caught up with your own ambition and judgment. Dissatisfaction is the engine of creativity.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Juliette was the golden child. I couldn’t compete. So I rebelled. I was the bad daughter, so it made sense I turned on them, right?”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“You lose a dream and it starts to hurt to even remember you ever had it.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Innocent until proven guilty was for judges and juries. Right now she was dealing with reality, and she didn't have the luxury of sitting around hoping the truth prevailed. She needed to protect herself.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“His face remained calm. “I mean you’ve had a hell of a life. Losing your parents and your husband so violently,” he said. “I’m saying you’ve been through a lot, and I’m sorry for your losses.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Is that how you remember it?” Daphne asked. “Because I remember all three of us doing whatever we had to so we could come out the other side alive. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Because I cared about you. I was angry,” he said. “And I was young and hotheaded and I wanted to be a hero.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Yeah, that’ll look great. Going straight from your husband’s murder scene to your boyfriend’s house.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“When he’d come to the house fourteen years ago, his face had been full of sympathy. There was none of that, now. His expression was hard, with an edge of something like vindication, maybe even a touch of excitement.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“Heroin,” he said simply. Emma gave him a skeptical look. “Never heard of the opioid epidemic? Eventually the semilegal stuff stops doing the job. But like I said, above my pay grade.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“You’re acting like I was sneaking around on you,” Nathan said, rolling his eyes, “when you’re making secret visits to your ex.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

“I’m not the police. I’m not our nosy neighbors. I’m your goddamn husband. You know something about what happened, don’t you? You wouldn’t have to keep all these secrets if you didn’t know something.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know