The Three Lives of Cate Kay Quotes

“The trick of life, as I see it now, is to make what’s around you beautiful. It’ll grow from there. Took me a long time to see that.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“You hold me steady without holding me still.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“What many people don’t understand about serious injury or illness is that what you’re really coming to grips with isn’t the physical limitations (although there is that); it’s how the physical limitations alter your interactions with the world. At first, you can only take. You take people’s time, their physical energy, their emotional reserves. You’re in a state of need and you take, take, take without giving. And taking without giving, that messes with your head. You start asking yourself what the point of your existence is. A drain on the world’s resources, on the resources of those you love, nothing else. But eventually—and it may take years, as it did for me—you discover ways to start giving again. Honestly, you’d be shocked at how many ways exist to give in this world if that’s all you’re looking for.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“But like everything in life, you’d be amazed at what you can get used to.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“Broken things are beautiful. More beautiful in the end than perfect things, which are usually an illusion of some sort. I hoped I had given her a beautiful life.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“I hadn’t achieved anything and already wanted more. What was the word for that? Insatiable, perhaps. But that was so earthly, calling to mind sex, or food. What I craved was cosmic bigness.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“being cool in high school was a death sentence. No pain to fuel you later.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“She was a confident person. But like all confident people, it was only about 87 percent authentic. Doubt just lived on the outskirts of town instead of in the center, like it does for everyone else.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“It’s like… ummm… how do I explain this? It’s like you hold me steady, but without holding me still.” After a long pause, the other said, “It’s an honor to hold you steady.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“Silence terrifies people. I’m always noticing the little ways society protects us from the menace of silence, like with Muzak in elevators. Humans: we built the Pyramids and made all the world’s information instantly accessible, but apparently if we stand together quietly, we’ll short-circuit and melt.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“people are always building a web of lies around a kernel of truth and calling it honesty—”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“Lawyers, we get a bad rap. We’re just storytellers. The only difference is, unlike a book or movie, we don’t say whether the story is true or false.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“Listening to my brain was exhausting.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“the day this story started—the day I caught the sickness of wanting to eat the world.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“The trick of life, as I see it now, is to make what’s around you beautiful. It’ll grow from there. Took me a long time to see that.” I sat”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“How sublime the feeling, to be known again.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“And I wonder how many other things in life I’ve misjudged this badly. More than I can stomach, I’m sure.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“You know what I love about you?” “Do tell,” said the other, solicitously. “It’s like… ummm… how do I explain this? It’s like you hold me steady, but without holding me still.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“I’d tell her that only love will fill the black hole—that it’s the only thing worth chasing.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“I just can’t make a decision about her based on this one action—we’re all so much more, and less, than our best, or worst, moment,” I said.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“The thing about writing—” I heard one guy say, and my ears perked. I paused, my fingers on a thumbtack, and tuned fully into their conversation. “—is that it’s unlike other creative endeavors. It’s not about you, it’s only about the story and the words. To be an actor or musician, you must perform—you’re trading on yourself—but not the writer. Most readers don’t even consider the author.I I love that about writing.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“I’m always noticing the little ways society protects us from the menace of silence, like with Muzak in elevators. Humans: we built the Pyramids and made all the world’s information instantly accessible, but apparently if we stand together quietly, we’ll short-circuit and melt.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“I’d been maimed playing the game of life.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“We were like all young people in that way, in full belief that we were revolutionizing the human experience.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“What many people don’t understand about serious injury or illness is that what you’re really coming to grips with isn’t the physical limitations (although there is that); it’s how the physical limitations alter your interactions with the world.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“Lawyers, we get a bad rap. We’re just storytellers. The only difference is, unlike a book or movie, we don’t say whether the story is true or false. That’s for other people to decide. Besides, they say each time a memory is recalled, the mind slightly alters it. This memory I’m about to share may no longer resemble the truth, so frequently have I retrieved it.”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“We were in this thing together”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“What many people don’t understand about serious injury or illness is that what you’re really coming to grips with isn’t the physical limitations (although there is that); it’s how the physical limitations alter your interactions with the world. At first”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay

“Não recebo muita correspondência”
― Kate Fagan, As três vidas de Cate Kay

“You just never fucking know what’s going to happen next in this life—okay?”
― Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay