The Secrets We Keep Quotes

“Honey, drinking—or smoking or toking or popping pills, whatever it is that helps you cope—that’s just a symptom.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“Worry feels like the natural by-product of love, but sometimes I wonder if it’s merely a poor substitute. It never seems to help.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“She’d remind me of stories from my own childhood, how moody and impossible I was when I was eleven, how I didn’t get invited to this or that birthday party. Stories I’ve forgotten, because I need my mother to keep telling me, to ground me in my own past, so I can help Katherine with her present.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“At the center of myself I’ve felt a deep, dark well of loneliness that I’m scared to peer into, frightened even to acknowledge.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“a benevolent bulldozer you can’t stop. You just have to get out of the way, if you can, or lie down and take it.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“We didn’t part on the best of terms, although I can’t say it was particularly acrimonious. It simply was—the silence, the sighs, the feeling that I’m letting him down again somehow.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“Memory is a very strange, subjective thing. Did you know the more times you recall a particular event, the less likely you are to remember the details accurately? In fact, with each retelling, the memory is likely to transform, even as you are more likely to be assured of the accuracy of your recollection.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“Some of us hide it better, some of us struggle along. But inside, where it matters? Broken.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“Why are we all so broken? Why is this world so hard, so brutal and unforgiving, that we can’t navigate it without hurting ourselves? Why does trying to be helped and healed feel like scaling a mountain that just keeps getting higher and higher?”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“How many people stop and really stare into someone’s eyes, never mind actually say something important and real? So much of life is about skimming, and I was okay with that. It felt like enough. It was enough; it was all I needed. Who needs to debate the meaning of life every day of the week? Who needs to confess to their brokenness and jagged pain? Who wants to?”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“It’s so wonderfully easy to please children sometimes, and so woefully difficult at others. I’m glad I got it right this time.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“the only way to be different is to start doing different things.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“you don’t feel like explaining something,” she snaps, flouncing off. God help clever children. “Get”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“Shalimar, the citrusy notes of lemon and bergamot.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“What Consumes Your Mind Controls Your Life”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“straightening my dress as best I can. I have”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“Then I feel guilty for my little pity party, because I know I’m lucky, especially compared to some. Even if I don’t always feel it.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“When I feel alone and lonely, I wish I could talk to my mom, because she was always ready to listen, always got where I was coming from.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“don’t talk about my mom at all, because it hurts too much.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep

“A lump forms in my throat, even after two years. I feel like I should be past it now, I should be able to move on a little more. My mother’s death, two years on, shouldn’t make me cry, but in these unguarded moments I feel like I could sob. I miss her. I need her.”
― Kate Hewitt, The Secrets We Keep