Motion of Intervals Quotes

“What was it about mothers and daughters that made it so damned complicated?”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“The years might have been abbreviated, but she’d greedily seized every moment of them until they were finally torn from her grasp. The tide’s ebb may have won in the very end, but Delta had fought it valiantly.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“At what point was it morally reprehensible to bring a life into a chaotic, toxic world?”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“Maybe it was selfish, but I didn’t want to let her rest in peace. She could do that when it was my turn.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“An endless party sounds fun in theory, but the body and mind can only take so much. Some people show up here hoping it’s the answer to all of their problems and figure out too late that they actually brought the problems with them.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“With each mile marker that we pass, a weight that’s been bearing on my shoulders for almost 21 years, grows lighter. Soon I’ll be floating.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“The monster under my bed is pitchpoling. See, when you’re in heavy seas you always face the bow forward. Steer into the waves. Seems to break the laws of nature but most times it works. You're gonna live to see another day. If your vessel gets turned sideways though, you get stuck in the trough and in heavy seas you can capsize. I don’t even worry about that so much. I can control that- I just steer the boat into the oncoming waves. Problem solved. Until it’s not.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“There’s something about an interstate highway that nearly wipes out the memories of before. Each ticking mile marker brings you further away from the person you were at the start.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“An hour of road trip time stretches on much longer than real life time.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“I don’t need to figure out what I really want because that’s irrelevant. I’m the sheet music, not the bard. Sheet music doesn’t compose itself.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“Perhaps the core of strength a person needed to thrive in this world was made of chalk. Perhaps it could be washed away, broken apart, crumbled under a cruel maternal hand. Or perhaps it was granite. Perhaps it needed only to be carefully mined and polished.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“When you were living in the moment though, it wasn’t possible to truly understand how finite it all was. Don’t we all secretly hope that we are the exception to the rules of time? We might even be immortal. Then, one day, something happens, you see your aging reflection in the mirror, really see it, and you know you’ve been fooling yourself. You can’t go back and relive it again and remembering can be a beautiful thing, but it can also break your heart.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“You don’t know anything other than the reality you are born into though. Perhaps our version of normal looked quite different than many other families, but it was absolutely normal to us.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“I’m surrounded by dead poets and dead novelists writing about their dead lovers and dead mothers, all day, every day, at work. Dead people have things to say too.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“If there is a heaven, it’s an eternal Saturday morning in September.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“There’s an oblique otherness out there and through the power of her thoughts- I am momentarily seen and felt.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“Put on your lipstick and a nice pair of shoes, hold your head up high and act as if you did nothing wrong. Half the people you meet don’t care about the truth, they only care about how you carry yourself.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current Rachel, that’s how even strong swimmers exhaust themselves and die. Swim parallel to the coast instead. The ocean’s gonna get bored of you eventually, she’ll let you go if you’re patient enough and don’t fight her.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“Self-loathing is a super power.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“There is only one acceptable way to address a scandal: you pretend it doesn’t exist.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals