Welcome Home, Caroline Kline Quotes

“knew, after that night, a series of tiny intimacies I had craved. I knew what kind of toothpaste he kept next to his sink. The clean taste of him. The small animal noises that escaped him when his body was pressed into mine or when he slept. The trickling tone on his iPhone alarm that he preferred to wake up to.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“My mother always called this species of thinking “catastrophizing,” but I couldn’t help myself. Everything I’d experienced in love and longing so far pointed to imminent catastrophe.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“Never holds a grudge. If he’s feeling it intensely, he just sort of stops in that moment, breathes, says nothing is fucked here, and moves on.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“If we had our way, the crickets and I, the summer would never end.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“Crispin’s mom worked the cash register then and took Polaroids of every musician who bought an instrument there, saying she wanted something to remember them by when they became rock stars. Every photo got tacked to the wall. A mélange of nobodies and somebodies, pinned together in the biggest band for all eternity.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“I realized in the last couple of years that the most pristine, happy memories I returned to were the moments that had seemed completely ordinary at the time.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“I didn’t even feel it anymore. I loved it, and then I longed for it, and seeing it all just felt like pressing down on a fading bruise.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“I’d love to start over with him, I thought. I’d love to come to him naked and clean, no blemished record, no broken heart.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“Rigorous honesty felt like too tall an order for me, and I wished it didn’t. It felt impossible to talk about where I was at because my life in that moment seemed so temporary and situational. But”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

“every time I had my heart broken, I convinced myself: This time, it’s for real. This time is the deepest cut. No one will ever get to me like this again because I’ll never love anyone like that again. And I’ll never let anyone get that close. I meant it, too.”
― Courtney Preiss, Welcome Home, Caroline Kline