She's Not Sorry Quotes

“The truth is that social media is an optical illusion. It’s an unreality, it’s the very deliberate version of people’s lives that they want you to see.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“There is no end to the number of rules women are supposed to follow at night regarding their safety—be observant, stay off your phone, adjust your routine so you don’t always take the same route, wear comfortable shoes that you can run in and carry mace or a Swiss army knife. Or better yet, don’t walk alone at night, especially if you’ve been drinking, because alcohol lowers your awareness and your reaction time and makes you an easy target—and yet men can do any damn thing they’d like and it’s fine.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“As nurses, we’re supposed to compartmentalize, to be detached, to mentally separate our professional lives from our personal lives, like sorting medication into a pill sorter, clearly divided with thick plastic tabs. We were taught this in nursing school, though it’s not that easy and it’s not something that can be taught—to care for and about our patients, but to not let ourselves get emotionally attached because attachment, they say, leads to burnout, which causes nurses to leave an already hemorrhaging profession. It’s hard because as nurses, it’s in our nature to be compassionate, and these two things—detachment and compassion—are at odds with one another.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“ex knows”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“I take them in”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“I can’t shake the thought that someone tried to trap me downstairs.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“Guthries,” she says, and I nod. Guthries. This cozy little unostentatious bar off Addison, not far from where Sienna and I live now.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“The only person in the world who knows is me and, well, some pretty blond guy who bought me a drink at Guthries back in May of 2007.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“In the end though,” he says, after some time, “it all comes down to luck. Some people can survive a hundred-foot fall or more. Sometimes you have that one lone plane crash survivor. Others die by falling six feet.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“I get off the Red Line at Sheridan and power walk from there, wanting nothing more than to get home, to be home and to see with my own eyes that the door to our apartment is shut and locked and that Sienna is okay.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“I take the Red Line home from the church, heading north.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“Halsted is alive tonight, full of people heading home on the evening commute, so that the air is electric, buzzing with the sounds of voices and cars.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“takes everything in me not to look back, not to run. There is no end to the number of rules women are supposed to follow at night regarding their safety—be observant, stay off your phone, adjust your routine so you don’t always take the same route, wear comfortable shoes that you can run in and carry mace or a Swiss army knife. Or better yet, don’t walk alone at night, especially if you’ve been drinking, because alcohol lowers your awareness and your reaction time and makes you an easy target—and yet men can do any damn thing they’d like and it’s fine.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“or did she feel nothing but the searing pain of impact? Bridget excuses herself. She slips back through the sliding glass door to attend”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“For men who wind up killing their spouses, the inciting incident is, most often, when a woman leaves or threatens to leave. It’s one of the reasons women stay in abusive relationships for as long as they do, because they’re afraid of what might happen if they leave.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“Who is this woman who’s been living in my home, who I’ve been telling my secrets to?”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“for more reasons than one.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“There is a shortage of nurses in the workforce these days. Burnout from the pandemic is real. In the last few years, it’s led many to rethink their career choice and to leave the profession en masse, which puts even more pressure on the rest of us. While the number of critical care nurses has been depleted, the number of patients continues to grow. They still come, despite the fact that we don’t always have enough room or resources to care for them as well as we should. It’s a known fact that inadequate nursing staff is directly aligned to patient mortality. The fewer nurses we have, the more responsibilities we have. We’re spread thin. We’re physically exhausted and emotionally drained. As a result, mistakes happen. It’s not necessarily due to bad doctors and nurses, but systematic health-care problems.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“being alone and lonely was better than feeling neglected and ignored.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“social media is an optical illusion. It’s an unreality, it’s the very deliberate version of people’s lives that they want you to see.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“It’s hard because as nurses, it’s in our nature to be compassionate, and these two things—detachment and compassion—are at odds with one another.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“As nurses, we’re supposed to compartmentalize, to be detached, to mentally separate our professional lives from our personal lives, like sorting medication into a pill sorter, clearly divided with thick plastic tabs.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“That’s her,” she says, pointing at the photo. “That’s Caitlin. I wanted you to know what she looks like,” she says. I know, of course, what she looks like. I can see that for myself, but what she means is that she wants me to see what she looks like without all the gauze and tubes, which mask half her face while the rest is swollen and bruised.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“I worry about Luke sometimes and the way he describes his marriage to Penelope. I worry she emasculates him, that she makes him get down on himself because he doesn’t have a six-figure salary and can’t provide for her in the way another man could, in the way Luke wishes he could.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry

“Luke is almost always upbeat. He’s one of only two male nurses on staff, which is typical—only something like 12 or 14 percent of nurses are men—though, contrary to popular belief, he’s not gay. You don’t have to be gay to be a male nurse. He’s married to a woman, though he was single for so long that people came to their own conclusions about him. His wife is gorgeous too, like a goddess.”
― Mary Kubica, She's Not Sorry