The Stillwater Girls Quotes

“Fear does that to you, though. It makes you question what you want and what you think you want.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“My subconscious is a cruel, cowardly bitch that shows herself only when I’m unable to fight back, unable to shut her off. I get it.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Brant and the woman are still lost in their little conversation, though at this point they might as well be lost in their own little world.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Hottest starving artist I’d ever laid eyes on . . . and then you just had to walk in and steal him from me.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I lose myself between the pages of a book where nothing is truly as it seems and no one is who they claim to be. Thank goodness it’s fiction.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“And there’s no better way to validate your worth than by helping people.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Bad things happen at night,” Mama always warned us. “People feel emboldened to do the kinds of things they’d never be caught dead doing in the light of day.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I swear his dimples grow deeper by the second,”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Desperation breeds resilience,”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“make us who we are together—gushing from the wound, and there’s no tourniquet in sight.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Our marriage is a jagged gash, all the good parts—the parts we need to survive and the parts that”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“energy.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“and do my best to pretend everything is fine and that I’m not slowly unraveling. One thread pull, and I’d be bare.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“you can’t put a price on never having to worry about money a day in your life.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“It isn’t the only thing wearing thin these days, though. My hope. My body. Our supplies. This life. Everything’s just . . . dwindling into nothing.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I just miss his time, his present presence. I miss his laugh. His sweetness. His adoration. All the good parts, the parts I’ve loved with abandon, without question.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“They say if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans, right?”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“And as Stevie Nicks croons about the stillness of remembering what you lost and what you had, I whisper a silent prayer that my husband stays upstairs at least five more minutes . . .”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“She always reminded me of a storybook queen—the noble kind—with love in her heart that translated through the softness in her tone when she spoke to us and the sparkle of contentedness in her eyes when she’d wrap us in her arms and read to us before bed each night.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“You were also tired, and it was pitch-black outside. For all we know, it could’ve been a deer or something,”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I just miss his time, his present presence. I miss his laugh. His sweetness. His adoration.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I don’t know how to stop the bleeding. All I know is I have to try . . . because I’m losing him.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I don’t need comfort. I only need to survive.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“What I wouldn’t give to have a taste of an exhaustion so meaningful.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“And if I wouldn’t come off as some kind of overly personal weirdo, I’d tell her how lucky she is to wear leggings and topknots each day and to get to vacuum crushed goldfish crackers from the crevices of her minivan seats and plan easy, kid-friendly menus. What I wouldn’t give to have a taste of an exhaustion so meaningful.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“reality, much like a scorned ex-lover, will not be ignored.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“My subconscious is a cruel, cowardly bitch that shows herself only when I’m unable to fight back, unable to shut her off. I”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I watch my husband sleep, jealous of his ability to shut out the rest of the world when mine is screaming in my ear”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“It’s always been this way, some years better or worse than others, but it’s never been as bad as it has the past couple of years. At times, I find myself irrationally jealous of his work, as if she’s a mistress who gives him everything he could ever want, which leaves me feeling inadequate and insecure, and I’ve never been that kind of person.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“unable to fight back, unable to shut her off.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls