This Much is True Quotes

“The ending is coming. I can feel it. I don’t know if I can take it this time. But then again, I say that every time and yet, every time I take it. And, I come back to her again for more. I will take whatever time I can get with her. I will do that for a lifetime. I will. I know that much about myself. She is my water. I can never get enough of her, and it appears that I will die trying to love her, to keep her, to hold her with me, even though our time together seems to evaporate so swiftly. It slips through our fingers so damn fast that we don’t even have time to savor it when we’re together.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“You can't really hear heartbreak. It is remarkably silent but excruciating all the same.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“Here’s the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too self-involved to ever care about anyone else besides herself. I’m the rebel. The bad twin. I am Tally—the loner, the party of one. The love and leave ‘em prototype. Heartless. That is me. I have no time for romance, flowers, or relationships. I like one-night stands with plenty of sex and no promises of a future. I like the lies I tell. I’m comfortable in telling them…most of the time. This is me.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“You know how it goes— the one person you care about is the one you hurt the most.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“Lies told in a carefree tone with lips parted in a practiced smile are often believed.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“I stand still for a long time, holding the note, and let it all sink in. Her leaving is almost palpable like a gale-force wind that’s rolled into my life in the span of a single evening and left behind all this incalculable destruction, both inside and out. Yes, the tempest has passed, but the air around me feels different. I can hardly breathe. Nothing is the same without her. As the lone survivor of her particular storm, I begin to wonder just exactly what I’m supposed to do now.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“Finally, I formulate and say a little prayer to God, and since we haven’t officially spoken since my mom and Elliott died that takes up quite a bit of my time.

The rest of it I spend on trying to determine what I think love really is and what I actually feel for Tally Landon at this point. Upon deep reflection, I realize that I must be at the edge of life’s abyss. This is me. All there is left of me; and yet, I’m looking over and contemplating its meaning on whether to jump or stay. I’m not sure this feeling for Tally Landon is made up of love any more than it is of hate. This must be a kind of purgatory—the in-between place—because these pervasive feelings of rage and passion for Tally are equalized and actually co-mingle together—like fire and water—each ready to extinguish the other. I’ve come to accept the truth. There may be nothing left for us. It could go either way.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“Yet she lays out this family plan the way you’d say, “After yoga, I’ll go to Lia’s for the mani-special and then wax on about hairstyles and hemlines until dinner.”

If I were gifted at making long-term plans, which by now we all know I’m not, and if I was at all hopeful, which we all know that I can never be, although it crosses my mind that it’s entirely possible these are all just huge, f*&king, temporary setbacks and nothing more, even though it’s been going on for over three years now, since Holly died, and I met Lincoln Presley. Events that could be construed as somehow inevitably related. Yes, perhaps there’s an expiration date on the said pursuit of unhappiness. Perhaps, things will eventually go my way after I actually discover what that way is supposed to be.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“The rebel is back. It feels good—different, somehow—but good. It is sometimes true that a girl can become someone else with the simplest of changes.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“Well, you got more than most then. She thanked you, Prez, but you’ve got to stay away from her. She’s trouble. I’m telling you this for your own good.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“None of us can really breathe, though not one of us will openly admit this to anyone else, least of all, ourselves.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“No need to write horror; I live it.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“She’s got this dreamy look going—her everything’s-right-with-the-world-why-isn’t-it-right-with-you-Tally? face. It’s such a carryover from high school that I almost laugh.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

“I want you to be good. Wait for me. And stay far away from every other guy.”
― Katherine Owen, This Much is True

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― Katherine Owen, This Much is True