The One I Left Behind Quotes

“You're facing your demons. You'll come out stronger.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing. It's our actions, Tara, not our thoughts.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Reggie was so sick of it all. The things people knew (or thought they knew) about other people. Maybe everyone had a secret life, not just Vera. She suddenly hated all of it. She wanted people to be as see-through as fish tanks, no more murkiness, no misdirection. No lies and bullshit. No secret rooms or lies about being the star of some goddamn play that didn't even exist.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“I guess you never know what other people are thinking, do you?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Sometimes I wonder if you remember things the way they really were.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“There are angels walking among us.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Sometimes we're at the mercy of other people. We don't even understand the power they have over us until it's too late.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“You never know who you'll meet. The world is about connections, Regina. Not just who you know, but who they know. It's all one big web, everything interconnected, everyone tugging on each other's strings.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“All great heroes have a flaw. It’s one of the things that makes them heroes.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Tara grinned. “Funny how things work out,”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Reggie smiled. 'You haven't changed at all.' Tara took another pile of clothing from her bag and gave Reggie a sly grin from over the top of it. 'Do any of us really?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Reggie's earliest memory of her mother began with her mother balancing an egg on its end and ended with Reggie losing her left ear.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“Reggie had always been a quiet kid, even with her own family, and part of the reason for this was that she never knew the right thing to say. Words didn’t come easily to her, they were stumbling blocks rather than lines of connection. And only later, after the fact, when she was replaying conversations in her head late at night, did the right words come—a cruel joke, too little, too late.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind