Spilled Milk Quotes

“Just remember, rain doesn’t seem all that threatening at first, but too much rain can turn into a flood.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Professionals don’t know what gives some people a resilient personality,” Dr. Russ said, pacing the classroom. “You can have four people go through something exceptionally traumatic, and one of those people will have a higher resiliency to coping. They won’t turn to drugs or rebel against society, they’ll seek the positive in any given situation. Now the interesting thing is the argument whether resiliency is nature or nurture. Are we born with it, or is it taught to us?”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“We don’t have the luxury of fallin’ apart, for someone else to come picking up the pieces.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Not everyone is abused by getting hit or slapped around, no child. Some people get put down by being called names, or the abuser makes them feel like they crazy and that the abuse ain’t happening.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“that’s something that happened to you. It’s not who you are.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Big thing to know is that if you don’t want to do it and they make you, it’s sexual abuse.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Abuse can mean so many things, like threatening someone, hitting them, or controlling them by making them feel worthless.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“We were fifteen months apart in age which meant everything was a competition; who could read all the Disney books the fastest, ride their bike further or know all answers to the universe both large and small.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“dragging realization crossed my mind as I finished seconds of macaroni and thirds”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“I thought my family would want the same, and it kills me that they have such great potential to thrive but they don’t. I lost a lot of sleep over that. I cried a lot over that. But at the end of the day, the only person I can make changes to is myself.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“It tells the person it’s addressed to that they’re being asked to serve as a witness in criminal court. You and your mom get one, so did Gina and Aunt Jean, and your mom’s”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“We walked in silence for two blocks as I tried to process what had happened. There was the overturned glass, the spilled milk, but his father didn’t yell, hit, or throw anything. The reaction that I had anticipated never came, and it left me standing at my chair in flight mode without a reason. I turned my head away from Paul and he must have noticed.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“It’s always about what you want! What about me, huh? You think I chose this? You think I wanted to live like this? Now I know why women don’t tell on their husbands, how are they supposed to survive?” I gasped in a stunned silence. Did she really just tell me that she didn’t tell on Earl because of money? Would that imply that she knew all along”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“. Mom hustled Adam, Thomas, Kat and me into the minivan. We spent ten minutes driving down Southern State Highway before we pulled up in front of my grandparents’ impressive, white Victorian home. Engraved columns hovered around the garden on the side of the house and the lawn was zebra striped from a fresh cut; it meant Grandpa was expecting us. He was nowhere to be seen, but if I had to guess he was probably in the backyard skimming the swimming pool. Oak trees that lined the property kept him busy during the fall and summer months between his weekly pool and grass preservations.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Please do not ever, EVER, tell a child that what they tell you will be in confidence if it is not. Don’t lie to us. If it is confidential, do not send a letter home to that child’s parents telling them what they told you. Do you have any idea how dangerous it was for me when my dad opened up a letter from Social Services saying that I had talked to them?”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“A local gym hired me to work a few hours a week, which gave me a place to spend time and shower when I needed to. I had plenty of friends’ houses I could bounce between when the temperatures would dip too low for me to sleep in my car and, since I got free breakfast and lunch through school, I only had to worry about dinner. Most of the time I was working at the telemarketing job in the evenings anyway and would get a hoagie or stromboli from the pizza shop next door. I still felt guilty, though, and gave Mom almost all of my paycheck each week, while still saving for my own place too.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“grandpa”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“paintings”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“CRISTIN WAS TIRED of watching me mope around over Paul and thought meeting someone new would be a good idea. “Jason’s a total sweetheart. He used to smoke weed, but not anymore, I know you don’t like that. I told him to meet you at your locker after gym.” I moaned. “You didn’t.” Cristin would finagle a blind date in high school somehow.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“ocean”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Thomas,”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“steps”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“answer,”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“could”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“does”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Hi Earl, I bet you’re wondering why I’m calling you Earl…”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“You don’t know something is wrong if it’s all you know,”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“It was unfortunate, the way we parted ways when we were so young, and I guess I would always wonder how my past played a part in the outcome of our relationship. I couldn’t go back in time to change anything, and we weren’t the young teens we were back then. If the good pieces of our relationship weren’t enough to keep us together in the first place, maybe they wouldn’t be enough to keep us together a second time.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“It seemed like no benefit would come from going backward in time, and in all honesty, I was a little angry that it took him comparing me to several other failed relationships before realizing I was what he needed.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“My heart battled my head over the same question while I waited for our reunion. There was so much history between us, even at such a young age. I had wanted his family as my own. I loved all of them so deeply.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk