Some Kind of Happiness Quotes

“I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I start to worry that I should be saying something. Most of the time I think I could be perfectly content without saying a single word, but no one else seems to function that way. There is so much talking in the world, and so much expectation to talk, even if you do not feel like talking. I find it overwhelming.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken?”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“Even after everything else has gone wrong, pancakes still smell the same.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“That's what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you're going.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I feel like we are playing the Quiet Game. When you're tired of playing and want to shout out all the words you've been keeping inside you, but you absolutely cannot lose. So instead you sit, and bite down on everything screaming inside you, and wait.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“Right now is all that matters, because right now is what we know. The future is wide open, and the world is full of people who get scared and lie and are sad and happy. That is how it is supposed to be.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“How wonderful a thing it is, to understand someone else without even trying to.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I want to ask him about these things, but whenever I imagine doing so, I freeze up. I have always been better at writing things than saying them.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“Time's a slippery little jerk, Fin." Dad sounds tired. "Things happen more quickly than you think. One minute you're a kid, and the next minute you're grown up and wondering what the heck happened when you weren't looking.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“This is a room for a princess, and I am anything but that.
What am I?
A lump of heaviness. A stranger. A thing that does not fit.
I can't seem to stop the poison inside me from spreading.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“First you must give it a name,” said the snake. “Naming a thing takes away some of its power and gives it to you instead.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“My chest is knotted up. I feel like a person standing in the middle of a crowded street. The person is screaming, but nothing is coming out, and no one's paying attention anyway.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“It seems like I didn't know what I was doing, like I was just a silly kid playing make-believe.
Before long these thoughts are so loud they start to feel true:
I am just a silly kid playing make-believe.
I don't know what I am doing.
I am all wrong.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I want to tell them about the stones piling up in my stomach. That my thoughts are tangled and wordless.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“We all carry secrets,” said the fox. “The more we ignore them, the heavier they become.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I wonder if Mom and Dad fell in love in a day, or if it took much longer, and if it makes a difference. If the way you fall in love determines how long you will stay in love, or if you will stay in love at all.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“Jack thinks it is so easy to do just things: to steal your neighbors' property so they will chase you. To hug your friend because you missed her.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“When I set the glass back down, I see the prints my sweaty fingers have left behind. I feel a sense of deep, sudden friendship with that smudge.
That is me. My aunts and uncles, my grandparents, my beautiful, beautiful cousins-- I am a smudge on their glass.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I suppose most things in a person’s life are good for a while, even if that doesn’t last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn’t broken when it wasn’t broken.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“A baby step. That’s what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you’re going. And hopefully, you have people beside you to help you up when you need it. That’s where family comes in.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I wonder if Mom and Dad fell in love in a day, or if it took much longer, and if it makes a difference. If the way you fall in love determines how long you will stay in love, or if you will stay in love at all.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“How I am sinking into cold, blue water, a blue nothing like the warm music filling the house downstairs.

How I am finding it difficult to breathe. How my skin is crawling with something like fear.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“Only fools try to run away from fear," called the snake. "What you must do is learn to walk alongside it.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I never want to scare my parents again.
I don't want them to look at me like I am broken in a way they don't know how to fix.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I hear whispers, bare feet slapping on wood floors, bodies moving throughout the house... The Harts are a storm and I am its bewildered eye.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“That in itself is scary, but I have learned it is important to tell the truth, even if it is frightening.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“It's Grandma, in the farthest stall. Grandma, getting sick. It goes on for way too long, and I make myself listen instead of covering my ears, because if she has to feel that, then someone else should have to hear it. It is too lonely otherwise.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness