The Break Quotes

“The dead don't hang on, the living do. The dead don't have anything to hang on to. Our bodies become nothing, and we just float around the people who love us. We go back to nothing. That is all we ever were or should ever be.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“But even in sleep, her ghosts all hunt her down, wanting her to look at them, remember them.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“I don't know if I can be with someone who doesn't understand.' Her young face rests on her knee, looking away.

'Then you will be alone, and that will be fine.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“She holds me, warm, soft. It's the kind of moment that is its own story without words.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“I am the light breath and wind around you. I am the knowing that you are never really all alone. You are all of my strength and none of my weakness. You are the dream my life made.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“He wants the simplicity of finality, but it’s never like it is in the movies. It always lingers on. Like a song that ends a beat or two before it’s supposed to, it feels like there should be more but there’s nothing, just an empty space and a long, fading echo.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“But I know I have my people. I can feel them, even when they go away. It means so much to have people. It is everything. I have been so fortunate.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“We are fighting. This is fighting.' My arms flail out to take in the whole scene, my mother, my sister, my niece. These tough women.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“I don't know if she knows yet, that men are good, strong, amazing and ordinary, but not everything. They can't be. They are too busy doing other things.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“We’re fucked up but not fucked.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“I know. I saw how you got treated. Hell, I saw how my father treated you. Thing is, though, I don’t feel different from them. Not any of them, any of you. I see them and they remind me of you, of your sisters, of me. They’re the people who look like me. They’re the only people that look like you.' 'They’re your people, that’s why.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“Girls don’t get attacked in good neighbourhoods.' Kookoo looks right back, just as hard, no harder, even with her near-blind eyes. 'My Stella, girls get attacked everywhere.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

“It never feels like home until you are here.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break