Girls of Brackenhill Quotes

“As a society, we’re insanely bad at predicting what the future will later prove to be fact.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“Not knowing where to begin wasn’t a good reason to never begin at all.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“every terrible adventure is worth having if you end up with a good story to tell later.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“The Akashic record is a collection of all events, thoughts, words, emotions, everything that has ever happened to every person or ever will. It’s emotion. It’s spirituality. It’s facts and perception and truth and falsehoods. It’s overwhelming to think about. But allows us to understand our own existence and our loved ones more than we otherwise would.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“Hannah thought it must be exhausting to live in a constant state of self-awareness. Worry about how every small movement would be perceived, when it was likely that no one was paying any attention to you anyway.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“sleepwalked since she was a child, and now, suddenly, it was becoming a regular occurrence. When she googled it, she found correlations with stress and PTSD.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“She never got over what she did.” Uncle Stuart’s voice rumbled, barely audible, and his eyes were drooping shut. “She loved all of you so much.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“After college she lived her life the way everyone does in their twenties: selfishly. Bouncing from job to job, apartment to apartment. Figuring out how to pay bills and make doctor appointments and keep plants and fish alive. Then she’d met Huck, started what felt like her real life, and thought, fleetingly, about calling them. Visiting. It always seemed like she had time to figure out her relationship with her past. It was muddled in her confusion over Julia, if she’d loved Hannah the way Hannah had loved her. There seemed to be so much to work out, so much fog to break through, that it had seemed insurmountable. And now it was silly how possible it would have been. One day, make the drive. A lifetime of questions answered. She”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“down”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“Young love”—she stumbled over the word, now when it mattered so much less—“is always fraught and messy. It’s how we all learn, how we form real relationships later.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill

“She’d felt something: a pressure, a draft, the feeling of someone watching her, a quick huff of air on the back of her neck, making the hair on her arms stand up.”
― Kate Moretti, Girls of Brackenhill