The Things We Don't Say Quotes

“she’d learned the hard way that the loss of a child’s trust is one of the most heartbreaking pills to have to swallow in this life.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“As I get older, I’m coming to believe that being in love is less and less important, but loving people is more so. Friendship is the thing. Loving one’s friends. And accepting them as they are.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“And she wondered if that was one of the brutal things about life, that we did not appreciate how much something meant to us until we were under serious threat of losing it for good, and only then did we panic, only then did we understand the full implications of what loss actually was.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“She’d thought, back then, that she could live under her own terms, creating a life, like some artistic vision that was separate from the reality of this world. But what she’d failed to realize was that this world was, in the end, the only one we have, and even though we all have different experiences, some things are universal.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“And yet, it seemed imperative that she keep up a facade of placid contentment and personal peace in the absence of being fully loved.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“We humans could not ever achieve complete understanding of another person if we couldn’t truly see inside them.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“this world was, in the end, the only one we have, and even though we all have different experiences, some things are universal.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“when family were shutting you down, self-preservation seemed like the only thing you had left.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“I think that not talking, not opening up to other people and the world, can cause more problems than taking a risk and dealing with things and, ultimately, living your life properly rather than getting stuck in some immovable place.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Circles, while interesting thought patterns, are not useful when getting to the bottom of a linear problem,”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Emma’s life was important. She, as an individual, deserved respect toward her memories, her story,”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Why do we humans persist with convenient ways of categorizing each other when we can hardly begin to work ourselves out?”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“For sometimes, what we think we know about others may only be correct in our imaginations, but perhaps our imagination gives the truest interpretation of the world.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Sometimes the heart didn’t have boundaries; emotions and individual feelings were complex, not binary. Love wasn’t one thing or another, gay or straight, black or white—love was the full palette.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“I’ve come to the conclusion that we all have to live in our own way, to do what we know deep down is best for us. I want to live from my heart when it comes to love, but I also want to live in that place where my heart and mind converge. That, ultimately, I think, is where the truth lies.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Sisters got each other through the hardest of times.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“The thing about growing older was that all of one's possessions became imbued with a sense of the past.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Forward planning”—he threw an arm around Laura’s shoulder—“always reduces future stress.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“When everything goes wrong, one may as well drink champagne.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Laura bit her lip. “I struggle with the effects of this on her health.” “If only we could protect the ones we love from the problems in the world,” Jasper said. “It’s what we try and do.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Memory, in the end, existed only in the imagination. It was just a story we made up.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

“Humans are first and foremost gossips, you know, Laura. Sometimes I wonder if, in the end, that is all we are.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say