The Thinnest Air Quotes

“We’re not meant to be best friends with every person who crosses our paths.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“We’re not meant to be best friends with every person who crosses our paths. Not everyone has our best interests at heart.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“This is what’s wrong with our society. We treat tragedies like entertainment, the American public priding ourselves on being armchair detectives trying to solve these crimes, but the second the sensationalism dies down and the case grows cold, we move on to the next exciting thing. And the media. That’s another thing. They need headlines that sell. Stories that stir up emotions and garner web traffic and ad clicks.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Monsters are real. They’re real, and they’re capable of doing the unspeakable. And they don’t hide under beds or in closets—they hide in plain sight. You just don’t always notice them.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“we don’t know the truth. And the truth couldn’t care less about what we want to believe.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I stopped giving a shit about what anyone thinks a long time ago.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Maybe it’s a man thing, not wanting to invest in hope.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I suppose we’re always deciding what we want to see in life and choosing how we’re going to see it.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“And I’d remind him that I judge when I’m anxious. When I lose control of my surroundings, I fixate on other people, picking them apart if only for the distraction it provides my frazzled mind. It’s a terrible habit, one I’ve been meaning to break over the years.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“So help me God,”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I’d tell her it was okay if people didn’t like her and that it meant she was doing something right.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“so desperate to enjoy just one dinner out that they’ll subject the rest of the world to the fruits of their failed parenting labors.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“But my sister was tofu. Absorbing the characteristics of whoever has managed to capture her attention at that point in her life,”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“But my sister was tofu. Absorbing the characteristics of whoever has managed to capture her attention at that point in her life, assimilating herself and becoming what they want her to become because it makes them like her better.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“We’re not meant to be best friends with every person who crosses our paths. Not everyone has our best interests at heart. Maybe I’m cynical, but those facts I know to be true.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I don’t know what the hell I’m doing,” I say, my hands around my sweating cup. “Neither do I,” he says. “No one does. We’re all just . . . doing the best we can. Trying to make sense of things that probably never will.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I’m not the biggest fan of Harris, but I can’t deny how ridiculously attractive he is—but it’s not in a Times Square billboard model sort of way; it’s more in a hot-nerd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt kind of way.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Gratitude is for happy occasions.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Don’t wallow in the past. Don’t beat yourself up for things you did or didn’t do years ago,” he says. “You do this, and then you reach this point of no return. Not going to let you go down that road. Let’s focus on the present.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I realize now that most people lie. Hidden lives are more common than I thought.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“I hate that word—McMansion. Everyone who uses that word thinks they’re being clever and witty when they’re really being banal and unoriginal.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Her jealousy makes him laugh, and I’d feel badly about it if I didn’t know how awful she was to him for sixteen years—cheating, overspending, never-ending nagging and bickering.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“don’t blame her for hating me. One minute her family unit is intact, and the next her parents are divorced and her father’s doting over a complete stranger who’s suddenly trying to forge an unnatural bond with her.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“He mostly hated that she was overtly sexual, but that was on principle. Raised by two Harvard-educated women’s studies professors alongside three older sisters, Harris was a staunch feminist.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“But there’s something about human nature that makes us shameless opportunists. We stumble across a chance, experience the tiniest taste of something we want, and we can’t say no.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“But my sister was tofu. Absorbing the characteristics of whoever has managed to capture her attention at that point in her life, assimilating herself and becoming what they want her to become because it makes them like her better. And I can’t blame her. It’s in our genetics. Our mother is tofu.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Not everyone has our best interests at heart.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Funny how all those old misgivings no longer matter once shit gets real.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“has a way of making you”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“When I arrived in the city yesterday, there was a package on my bed with a note from him. He’d had my favorite local treats delivered, as well as a Chanel handbag to mark the occasion, an advance copy of the newest Diane Chamberlain novel—autographed—as well as a list of reservations he’d made for me at various wait-listed restaurants and high-end day spas.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air