Home Truths Quotes

“Nought to one hundred. That was her. She had taken this ship of a marriage, the one that had steamed along innocuously for years and years, and had just rammed it into one hell of an iceberg.”
― Tina Seskis, Home Truths

“Her life was here. But was it enough? Had it ever been enough? Had she ever fulfilled her potential? Achieved anything of note? It was almost absurd that she didn't even know what 'enough' meant any more.”
― Tina Seskis, Home Truths

“It must be an odd feeling, she thought, on the one hand to feel so safe that guns were not deemed necessary, and yet on the other to be left so vulnerable.”
― Tina Seskis, Home Truths

“She wanted to know why things had to change. Why nothing could ever stand still in time, just when it was all so wonderful... And that was what destroyed her now, realizing that that was just the way life was, and would always be. That things never ever stay the same, not even when you have it all, there in you hand -- it's always destined to change. Get better. Get worse. But never remain. Never stay perfect.”
― Tina Seskis, Home Truths

“For years she'd not known what it was, why there was such a pull in her stomach sometimes when she thought about her marriage. She could barely even confess it to herself, and it was only at times like these, when she felt irrationally cross with her husband, that she allowed herself to think it.
There was something missing.”
― Tina Seskis, Home Truths

“What was the saying? You could never be happier than your least happy child.”
― Tina Seskis, Home Truths