Desire Lines Quotes

“This isn't bickering. This is classic mother-daughter communications. I've been reading up on it.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Desire Lines

“She didn’t have a compass, a map, or even a decent sense of direction. She wasn’t certain she would recognize herself.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Desire Lines

“so alone was almost spiritual—but something in Abby’s voice makes her pause. “You might have a better idea,” she says. “But you two were ‘best friends,’” Abby says mockingly. She taps ash from her cigarette into a chipped teacup on the table. Kathryn looks at her. “I thought so.” She swallows hard. “But”
― Christina Baker Kline, Desire Lines

“There was never a cataclysmic moment in which things might have been, however briefly, etched in relief against memory, against things to come—a moment which, by its sheer magnitude, defined her history and her future. Instead, Kathryn thinks, she has disintegrated slowly over a number of years.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Desire Lines

“Her absence is a presence, ghostly and haunting, touching all who knew her. It is impossible that she disappeared, inconceivable that she will never return. She is at once nowhere and everywhere, a constant shadow, elusory and insubstantial, her life an unkept promise, a half-remembered dream.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Desire Lines