All These Beautiful Strangers Quotes

“If my investigation into my mother’s past had taught me anything, it was that no one can really understand the whole of a person. In many ways, my mother, my father—the people I was closest to, the people who meant the most to me—were strangers. Beautiful strangers.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“No one can really understand the whole of a person. In many ways...the people I was closest to, the people who meant the most to me--were strangers. Beautiful strangers.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“With everything that had happened with my mother, I realized how important the stories that we tell about one another are. The stories we tell can change the way we see one another, can even change the way we see the world. I wanted to tell those stories; I needed to tell them.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“You're not really doing this, are you?...That thing some girls do, where the guy is horrible and then makes some gesture, and the girl forgets how horrible the guy is, just in time for the guy to do something else horrible.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“I started to type out a response and then erased it. I started again”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“I’m fine,” I lied.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“He moved his laptop off his lap and skimmed his fingers along the edge of my jaw until they were on the nape of my neck”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Please,” I said. “Your whole life has been a fucking vacation. The fun’s over.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Your whole life”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Most nights”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“What in god’s name were you doing in a library?” “I got lost,” Teddy said.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Yeah”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Death doesn’t make any sense when you’re sixteen. Death doesn’t make any sense when you’re older either. It just becomes a familiar stranger”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“I’m going to go dig up Plath’s unabridged journals,” Stevie said”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Fuck,” I said. “Fuck”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“DGAF is today’s YOLO.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Love is only ever the first act. It doesn’t
last forever. (...) Every great tragedy started with love.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“But you and Grace, you'll only ruin each other... Every great tragedy started with love.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers