Such Quiet Girls Quotes

“I accept my past, understand my present, and look forward to my future.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Take care of your sister. Mom’s voice. Sisters are for life.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“But kids were like rubber bands, I reminded myself. They bounced back. And these rubber bands were worth a shit-ton of money.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“and realized that I should absolutely not have a job driving children?”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“The smell of overripe cherries was all around us now, and it made me think of fall.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“if you pressed your nose to the crack of the bus window, you could smell the last of the ripe fruit that had missed getting picked.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Sometimes, the moments he sounded just like my old dad hurt as much as the times he slipped away.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“For the first time”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Gravel crunched under our shoes. The sun hit my cheeks. The fresh smell of dirt and grass washed over me in the tree-thick orchard as we approached the gray van.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“McMansions,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“it turned out, when there were enough bad things all around you, the only choice was to move to the least bad thing.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“We could just leave them down there”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“This was a civil kidnapping.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“People think that if you’re in uniform”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“They’ll be fine. They’ll bounce back. They’ll have a crazy story to tell when they’re older,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Defiance won’t accomplish anything. It’s not worth the risk.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Kids were rubber bands”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“There was something familiar about it”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“At this point”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“I accept my past”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“suddenly thinking about how Harriet the Spy had said, “Life is very strange.” I didn’t really understand what that meant when I read it the first time. I did now, though.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“I’d barely let myself think about how many good things could still be ahead.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“I couldn’t bring myself to look forward to a future that was tied to that horrifying past.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“imagine what I wanted. Instead of thinking about what I didn’t want. Like, I was always thinking about how long it would be until I saw my daughter Sophie again. Or how much I missed her. But that just made me feel stuck and scared. So instead, the counselor told me to think about the two of us eating cereal together for breakfast, or running through the sprinklers on a hot summer day, or just saying goodnight at bedtime.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Which meant that I could dig into the wet wood way more easier than I’d been able”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Take care of your sister. Sisters are for life.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Karen peered at me with slitted green eyes purring softly, as if warning me not to remove her human pillow.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“There it was, right beneath his jaw. The carotid artery, I knew from watching Grey’s Anatomy.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“Such nice, quiet girls.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls

“when there were enough bad things all around you, the only choice was to move to the least bad thing.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Such Quiet Girls