An Anonymous Girl Quotes

“We all have reasons for our judgments, even if those reasons are so deeply buried we don’t recognize them ourselves.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“How do you know if you can really trust someone?" I finally ask.

Noah raises his eyebrows and takes a sip of his drink.

Then he looks into my eyes and the expression in his is so earnest I feel like he's answering from a deeply personal place.

"If you need to ask that question, then you probably already know the answer," he says.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“People are motivated to break their moral compasses for a variety of primal reasons: survival, hate, love, envy, passion. And money.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“Every lifetime contains pivot points—sometimes flukes of destiny, sometimes seemingly preordained—that shape and eventually cement one’s path.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Uncertainty is an excruciating state in which to exist.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“The worst of humanity comes out in the shadows.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“We all have reasons for our actions. Even if we hide the reason from those who think they know us best. Even if the reasons are so deeply buried we can’t recognize them ourselves.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“It can be frightening to become acquainted with parts of yourself that you don’t like to admit exist.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“The intellect does not reign supreme in matters of the heart.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Self-preservation is a powerful motivator, more reliably so than money or empathy or love.”
― Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“One of them is lying. But who?”
― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“You don’t award confidences easily, yet you yearn for the relief that comes with the release of a secret.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Sometimes silence is more effective tool to loosen information than a direct question; members of the law enforcement community often employ this tactic when a suspect is in custody.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“These moments, as unique to each individual as strands of DNA, can at their best cause the sensation of a catapult into the shimmer of stars. At the opposite extreme, they can feel like a descent into quicksand.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Perhaps he will be the one who will finally enable you to experience true love. Not the storybook version. The real kind, which sustains through phases of dark, until the return to light.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Sometimes I think I’ve hurt everyone I’ve ever loved.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Five seconds can change a life.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Those extraneous “no’s” are your undoing: Liars, like the chronically insecure, often overcompensate.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“not everyone’s dreams are meant to come true.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Presenting an unremarkable facade to the outside world is the norm; superficial conversations comprise the majority of social encounters. When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self—the deepest fears, the hidden desires—a powerful intimacy is born.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“And sometimes the people who seem the most accomplished and together are the ones you can hurt you the most.”
― Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“You, with that heavy makeup case you lug around and the wild hair you attempt to tame and the vulnerability you fail to hide.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Often the person we judge most harshly is ourself. Every day, we criticize our decisions, our actions, even our private thoughts. We worry the tone of an e-mail we sent to a colleague might be misconstrued. We lambaste our lack of self-control as we throw away the empty ice-cream container. We regret rushing a friend off the phone instead of listening patiently to their troubles. We wish we had told a family member what they meant to us before they died. We all carry the weight of secret regrets—the strangers we see on the street, our neighbors, our colleagues, our friends, even our loved ones.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“It is easy to judge other people’s choices. It is far more complex when the choices are your own.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“In every lifetime, there are pivot points that shape and eventually cement one’s path.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“Communication is a vital component of a healthy partnership. It is a necessary foundational aspect of a romantic relationship, as well as a therapeutic one. Yet self-preservation must trump the blind trust of one’s spouse. Particularly when one’s spouse has proved untrustworthy in the past.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“I don’t fear strangers, though. I’ve learned more harm can come from familiar faces.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“EVERY FAMILY GENERATES its own particular dysfunction”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

“But I can’t let it go. Guilt is always the heaviest thing I carry.”
― Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl