Big Girls Don't Cry Quotes

“time. They’re gonna like us. We have the same last name.” “What?” Reenie said. But the bell rang right then, and the girls rushed off, leaving her standing at the edge of the parking lot, feeling as though she’d just been zapped with a stun gun. “They wouldn’t have,” she murmured, over and over to herself. But her mind was racing. What were the chances that an unrelated family of O’Connells would move to town at this time? Could that blond woman be Liz? And those children…Keith’s? She remembered Isaac’s final words from last night, which now seemed much more than just a turn of phrase: See you around…”
― Brenda Novak, Big Girls Don't Cry

“Sometimes we see the jagged rocks in our path, but we still can’t avoid them.”
― Brenda Novak, Big Girls Don't Cry

“Because you’re obviously working very hard to protect yourself against what’s happening, and I didn’t want to undermine you.”
― Brenda Novak, Big Girls Don't Cry

“Reenie. It’s not easy approaching the woman my husband loved more than me.” “I’m sorry for what Keith did, Liz. To both of us.”
― Brenda Novak, Big Girls Don't Cry