Hanging by a Thread Quotes

“one of the hardest things about being a mother is accepting that just because you give your kids life, that doesn’t give you the right to live it for them.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what’s the point if I’m not living the life I want?”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“That, if I’m being honest, Manhattan is just a place like any other. Its power to mesmerize, to seduce, to excite, is in direct proportion to my willingness to be mesmerized, seduced, excited. That it really is all about perspective.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“But mostly it’s because my head’s too full. So I have to keep thinking until it’s empty, and then I can go to sleep.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“I attempt to process the myriad thoughts her comment provokes, but they all collide in my head and are now lying prone like the Three Stooges after a pratfall.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“And that’s just what this feels like, a bad scene from a third-rate soap. I half expect to hear the ominous, minor chord before we cut away to a detergent commercial.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“we were sucked into the sea of gyrating bodies like socks into a washing machine’s agitator. Seconds later, bruised and sweaty and alone, I was spit out at the other end.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“There’s that word again. Understand. I think, obliquely, that maybe even more than love or food or shelter or sex, what the human animal craves most is for another human being to understand him.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“Assistant to name designer,” the ad had said. Yeah, well, she has a name all right. But then, so do we all.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread

“Nikky goes on about whatever it is Nikky goes on about for another thirty seconds or so, then sweeps into the back to assuredly wreak more havoc, leaving a zillion startled molecules in her wake.”
― Karen Templeton, Hanging by a Thread