What I Thought Was True Quotes

“That what you’ve always had doesn’t mean that’s what you’ll always get. That what you’ve always wanted isn’t what you’ll always want.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I finally get that sometimes we hold on to something - a person, a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are - because we don't know what to reach for next. That what we've done before is what we have to do again. That there are only re-dos and no do-overs. And maybe ... maybe I know better than that.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“You can do better than that." He loops his arms around my waist and pulls me to him.

"Where are your gloves?"

"Better than that too." He drops a kiss on my collarbone. "Good to see you, Cass. I dreamed about you, Cass...Feel free to improvise."

"Aren't you supposed to be wearing those work gloves? When you're working? Because otherwise your poor hands won't..."

Gah. I sound like Mom, or the school nurse.

I'm no good at this.

Luckily, Cass is good enough for both of us. "I missed you, Gwen. It's good to see you, Gwen. I dreamed about you, Gwen. Yeah, haven't gotten around to the gloves. More important things to focus on. Want me to tell you what they are?”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Dressed-up Cass is like a creature from another planet. One I want to colonize.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“You need to come with a goddamn YouTube instructional video.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Blood may be thicker than chlorine, but hormones seem to scramble the equation.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“If there were an Olympics for kidding yourself, I’d take home the gold.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“When she's worried Vivien gives herself pedicures and facials. Nic lifts weights. I bake. So, Vivien ends up looking more glamourous. Nic gets fitter. And I just get fat.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I finally get that sometimes we hold on to something - a person,a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are - because we don't know what to reach for next. That what we've done before is what we have to do again. That there are only re-dos and no do-overs. And maybe ... maybe I know better than that.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“All the things that stay the same... and everything that's changed.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“instead of what a betrayal it is to be lied to, how rare and wonderful it is when two human beings can tell each other the truth.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Maybe I stop talking because I don’t
know what to say. Or maybe I stop because I finally get that
sometimes we hold on to something—a person, a resentment,
a regret, an idea of who we are—because we don’t know what
to reach for next. That what we’ve done before is what we have to do again. That there are only re-dos and no do-overs. And
maybe . . . maybe I know better than that.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“...I would so much rather be with someone who cared about what he was doing than someone who knew what he was doing.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“It feels like forever since I've been "here" without being "there" and "there too" and "what about there.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“The Man of Steel never rests. Or maybe that's Jose the yard boy. I get my alter egos confused.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“When I'm interested, I get focused.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“We were doing so well there for a second.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I remember Mrs. Ellington watching that separation of sea and sky during our interview, Nic, Viv, and I doing the same last night, and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I've loved that girl all my life...And I'm more bummed about not getting the captain spot. Want to tell me what that means?' That what you've always had doesn't mean that's what you'll always get. That what you've always wanted isn't what you'll always want. I don't realize I've spoken out loud until Nic says, 'Yeah. Exactly, cuz.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Maybe I stop talking because I don't know what to say. Or maybe I stop because I finally get that sometimes we hold on to something--a person, a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are--because we don't know what to reach for next. That what we've done before is what we have to do again. That there are only re-dos and no do-overs. And maybe...maybe I know better than that.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“If what I want is a little less big, less noble than what he wants... does that make me the loser?”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Is it? All I know is that I can’t seem to stop—this—or slow it down. Or remember exactly why that’s what I want.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“what you’ve always had doesn’t mean that’s what you’ll always get. That what you’ve always wanted isn’t what you’ll always want.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“sometimes we hold on to something—a person, a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are—because we don’t know what to reach for next.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“That what you've always had doesn't mean that's what you'll always get. That what you've always wanted isn't what you'll always want”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“Maybe she's a gymnast with superior muscle control."
"She'd have to be in Cirque de Soleil to manage this.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“The old-fashioned music fades away, starts into something jangly and current. Cass pulls my hand and we head farther out into the grass, to the top of Beach Road where we can see everything—ocean, land, even a hint of the causeway far, far off. And I can glimpse it all, trace the path we’ve come along, like the lines on a map. Four kids lying on the sand, fireworks as bright as shooting stars. Two friends on the dock, looking out at the unknown. A little boy leaping for his life, an older one doing the same. A firefly glowing in the night, caught by a boy who shows it to a girl. This girl bending to that boy’s kiss. An old woman who hasn’t forgotten what it was like to be a young one, leaning back on her glider, rocking her feet against the floorboards, looks out over the water, the ocean that changes and never changes. Horizons that seem like endings but only bend farther into the sky, curving into something new, beginning all over again.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“I love you, you know, I told him, that night at the Field House. Sort of fiercely, in this aggressive tone I immediately wished I could take back—a challenge more than an admission. But Cass gets it. He gets me. “I do,” he said simply. And I knew he did. That that was true.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True