The Stories You Tell Quotes

“My grandma has this framed embroidery thing on her wall,” Shelby said. “It says, You can’t do everything at once, but you can do something at once. It makes me feel better every time I see it. Because when things are overwhelming, you don’t have to figure out the whole thing right this minute—you just have to start.”
― Kristen Lepionka, The Stories You Tell

“When my dad died, I kind of felt the same way. We had a pretty rocky relationship, to be honest. And when he died, it was like I was grieving for the end of something that didn’t exist, or grieving for the end of the chance that it might exist at some point, rather than for a person. You know?”
― Kristen Lepionka, The Stories You Tell

“Happiness was something she never quite experienced while being married to my father. Not real happiness. If you’d asked her, she would have said she was happy, that she was madly in love with Frank. But it was the kind of happiness you feel when you get the thing you thought you wanted, not the kind of joy that bubbles up when you’re with someone on the same page as you.”
― Kristen Lepionka, The Stories You Tell

“It was dangerous to be like that, dangerous to think that worrying in a certain way was the same thing as making progress. But I nodded.”
― Kristen Lepionka, The Stories You Tell

“Being with Catherine was like spending money you don’t have: a dazzling thrill in the moment, bookended by uneasy weirdness before and after.”
― Kristen Lepionka, The Stories You Tell