Reconstructing Amelia Quotes

“Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Everyone has beacons. Lights that guide them home.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“...[T]here's a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com.

Don't Be a Statistic.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia’s mother—the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of ridiculous.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous. Of course, it was also the exact same thing that eventually ended up driving the boys away. After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“we're teenagers," Sylvia said. "we're all depressed.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Simple, Kate wanted to say. I'm already dead.
Instead, she'd pressed her lips together so hard it made her eyes water as she'd grabbed her prescriptions. The ones her therapist had assured her would help with the nausea and the insomnia. In reality, they'd nothing except make her feel as if she were underwater. Kate kept taking them in the hope she might eventually drown.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Articles about things weren't the same thing as stories I'd made up. Those I wasn't ready for the world to pick apart, not yet.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Simple" Kate had wanted to say, "I'm already dead.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“sure I can handle waiting for more bad news.” “I know, Kate, and I’m sorry.” His voice”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“My frustration?” Kate shouted. “My daughter is dead, Mr. Woodhouse. You do realize that, right? Trust me, you don’t feel frustrated when your only child is killed.” “Killed?” “Yes, killed,” Kate said. “Because Amelia didn’t jump. We—and that’s the police and I, by the way—know that she didn’t. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out which of your students—or faculty—pushed her.” “Well, that’s— I didn’t know there was new information.” He sounded genuinely sad or regretful or concerned. Or maybe he was just good at pretending that he was. “I wish that changed what I’m at liberty to discuss with you. Regardless of how I feel personally, I can’t tell you anything about that blog or anything in relation to it either. I’m contractually prohibited from doing so. But I assure you, no one is more upset about that than me.” “Try me!” Kate yelled so loud that it burned her throat. She needed to calm down, though. She needed to pull herself together enough to get at least some of her questions answered.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“But some things you can’t outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“the door. “One last thing,” Lew said as he”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“You were a good mother, Kate,” Seth said, turning serious. “You loved Amelia, and she loved you back.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“You were a good mother, Kate,”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Listen, Lola’s only five, and even I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time,” Seth said. “As far as I can tell, it’s that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It’s like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you’re hooked.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“This is largely the point of the club, to make outsiders feel badly and to constantly threaten insiders with losing their special status.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia