The Towering Sky Quotes

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Didn't you feel me, loving you from across the ocean?”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“I swore that I wouldn't kiss you again. Obviously I can’t keep my promises, even to myself. Not when it comes to you.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“If Rylin had learned anything by now, it was that in real life, you never quite knew what was coming. You had to take the bad with the good. You had to take a chance, hold your breath, and trust people. After all, the fun of real life stories is that they're still being written.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Maybe that was just the way love went - it was something that happened to you, and the best preparation you could hope for was the chance to take a deep breath before the wave of it crashed above you and you were in over your head.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“All good storytellers study psychology ... Novelists, filmmakers, even actors. You have to know the rules of human behavior before you can make your characters break them.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“That’s because the better you know someone, the easier it is to hurt them,”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Someday, Avery, you'll learn that it's not much use running away from things if you have to eventually come back and face them.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“There aren’t any happy endings in real life, because there aren’t any endings in life, only moments of change, she wrote, repeating his words. There’s always another adventure, another challenge, another opportunity to find happiness or chase it away.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Stories are the only real magic that exists. A story can breach the impossible distance between individuals, take us out of our own life and into someone else’s, if only for a moment. Our hunger for story is what makes us human.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Someday you’ll learn that it’s not much use running away from things, when you have to eventually come back and face them.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“No one should have to confess to murder alone. Haven't you heard? That's what best friends are for.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Some secrets are better buried.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“She leaned back in her chair, watching the sunrise as if it were a private performance intended just for her. And for a moment it felt that way: as if the sun was showing off for her benefit, reminding her how wonderful it was to be young and alive and in New York.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Everywhere I go, you catch up to me. Everywhere I run, I keep seeing you. Every time, you happen to me, all over again.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Didn’t you feel me, loving you from across the ocean?”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“How foolish she'd been, to think that a broken heart would kill her, but it was how she'd felt.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“She knew this was reckless; it was dangerous, but like all dangerous things, it had a deep, thrilling undercurrent that was richer and better and more alive than anything safe.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“There aren’t any happy endings in real life, because there aren’t any endings in life, only moments of change,”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“You forgive yourself for what you’ve done. It can only kill you when you try to run from it. If you just look it in the eye and face it, it becomes part of you, and it can’t hurt you anymore.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“She stumbled through the world at the center of a cloud of wrongness, which seemed to pervade everything, closing its fingers stealthily around her throat. The ground felt unsteady beneath her, like the surface of a ship, like melting quicksand.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“None of their works had a drop of white or black paint.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“I guess I was always more excited for the flying than for the destination.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“In particular, we long for stories that make us happy. Stories make sense in a way the real world fails to.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Always know that my heart is out there, somewhere in the world, beating in time with yours”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Misschien was het geheim van volwassen worden dat je je afkeerde van de lelijkste delen van jezelf.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Hoe graag ze hem ook wilde, Rylin wist dat ze het niet nog een tweede keer aankon; al die kleine verwondingen die ze elkaar hadden toegebracht, al die misverstanden en het verdriet en het verlies. Was dat niet de definitie van krankzinnigheid, om hetzelfde steeds maar te herhalen en een ander resultaat te verwachten?”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Wezenloos staarde ze in het donker. Het kon een uur of een minuut geduurd hebben; tijd is een rekbaar begrip als je verdriet hebt.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Kunstgeschiedenis draaide niet om ordenen of maximaliseren, maar om diepzinnigheid en waardering - de zoektocht naar een verbindende draad tussen alle wonderlijke dingen die mensen door de eeuwen hadden gecreëerd, in een poging iets te zéggen, je een heel klein beetje minder alleen te voelen.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Dat is een klassieke demonstratie van hoe gemakkelijk het menselijk brein voor de gek gehouden wordt. Onze hersens zijn de computers waarmee we de wereld interpreteren, en toch wordt hun werking maar al re gemakkelijk gecompromitteerd. We herinneren ons informatie verkeerd, we vergeten hele tijdsperiodes. We overtuigen onszelf van dingen waarvan we weten dat ze niet waar zijn.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky