Not Our Kind Quotes

“You make the world you want to live in. Not the other way around.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“Things are falling into place.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“You may love me. But can I trust you? You disappear when you’re scared or uncomfortable. That’s not a good trait in a husband.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“I didn’t tell that Dr. Parker either. What good would it have done? No one would believe me. Maybe not even you, Ruth.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“What happened to her is such a blow; she needs her anger to burn her clean so she can move beyond it.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“I know you’re upset,” said Tom. “But this isn’t helping.”

“It’s helping me,” she said.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“You were always with your nose in a book. Now you’re getting paid for it.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“And yet you did it.”

“Because staying was worse than all that. Much worse.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“But I’ve only lived alone for such a little while. And I like it so much.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“But things had changed. No —she was the one who had changed.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“Living alone was everything Eleanor had thought it would be. Every time she turned the key and walked in, she thought, 'Mine, mine, mine'. How good that felt. How right. This place was both sanctuary and oasis.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“[...] her anger evaporated and she was left hollow and spent.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“She was going to get a place of her own. What had been a wish, a dream, a speculation became in this moment a certainty. She couldn’t live amid the trappings of her childhood any longer; she had moved too far beyond their confines.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“That trusting quality you had—it’s gone.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“[...] took something from me that I can never have back. I don’t feel the same anymore.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“I knew you’d be loyal to her. And I was afraid you’d think I encouraged him in some way. That I deserved it.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“[...] with her desire for him glowing like a candle cupped by her two willing hands.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“But she had to stay strong or else she’d succumb, and in so doing, lose herself for good.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“Margaux couldn’t stay holed up here forever. She had to start living again.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“She was keeping more and more of herself hidden from view, saving her money, biding her time. And then, when the moment was right, she’d break away and walk freely into the new life she was only just beginning to devise for herself.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“But then her fury was replaced by something equally primal—fear.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“Certain coded words she had come to recognize: 'ambitious' for 'pushy', 'self-confident' for 'arrogant', 'principled' for 'stubborn'.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind

“Jesus was a Jew, and so were his father and mother. He thought his fellow Jews had strayed too far from their faith, and all his preaching was an effort to get them to reform. So the Jewish leaders at the time wouldn’t have killed him. They’d simply have excommunicated him.”
“Excommunicated?”
“Expelled him from their church, only they called that church a synagogue,” explained Eleanor. “As for the crucifixion, Jews never crucified anyone. That was a Roman punishment, and they did quite a lot of it in fact. The road to Rome was lined with crucifixes.”
― Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind