I Think This Is Yours Quotes

“Home is not a place you find but a place you recognize when you get there.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“The afraid isn’t going away,” Jade said. “You know that, right? The further in you go, the more it costs if it goes wrong. That’s not a problem to solve. That’s just — that’s what it is to love someone.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“She was asking what Amy was thinking about, what interested her, what was happening in her interior life. And then she was listening to the answer as though it mattered. It mattered. Amy had spent enough of her life around people for whom her interior life was either interesting as curiosity or irrelevant entirely. The experience of someone treating it as simply worth knowing — not remarkable, not special, just worth knowing as a natural consequence of caring about her — was new enough that she was still calibrating to it.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“She did not bring it up for five days. This was not avoidance. Amy had a precise internal taxonomy for the difference between avoidance and waiting, and the distinction mattered to her in the way that precise distinctions always mattered to her: avoidance was when you didn’t look at a thing because looking at it was uncomfortable. Waiting was when you looked at it clearly and chose your moment because the moment was part of the thing.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“Lucy talked, eventually — not about the case specifically, but about the flatness that followed big wins when the win had cost enough that there was nothing left to feel it with. About the way she’d been doing this long enough that she knew the shape of it, knew it passed, knew what it meant and what it didn’t, and how knowing all of that didn’t actually make it feel any different.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“She had the quality of someone trying to look like she was somewhere she’d decided to be, which was, Lucy recognized, a very specific performance.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“I don’t know what I do if this doesn’t work. Not strategically. Not as a problem to solve. She genuinely did not know. She had always had a next step, a next plan, a recalibrated route toward what she wanted. She did not have one here. If this didn’t work she was at the end of a road she’d been walking for two years and she had no map for what was beyond it.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“She had stopped making the want visible because visible wanting was, for her, a form of risk she’d decided she could not keep absorbing.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“Jade let it go, because she knew Amy well enough to know when pushing would help and when it wouldn’t. That was the thing about the right people — they knew when to wait.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“Plans were things you made and then revised. Amy had revised hers before. She could do it again.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours

“What those people consistently failed to mention was that hard and financially catastrophic were not mutually exclusive, and that the version of it gets better they were selling came with a lot of fine print.”
― Iris Blythe Grey, I Think This Is Yours