The Family Game Quotes

“I’m no damsel in distress, trust me, I’ve survived a lot more than most, but you can’t underestimate the overwhelming power of someone swooping in to save you after a lifetime of having to save yourself.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“A game is only a game if you do not fully understand it.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“As every writer knows, even if a story is pure fiction, there are truths hidden in there, about the writer, about the time it was written - that are incontrovertible.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“Beginnings are always hard, almost as hard as endings, I remind myself.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“Games take us as close as is acceptable to the strategies we use in life. Games reveal our most base instinct: the instinct to survive. Under the mask of enjoyment, we reveal ourselves, we reveal how we play at life, our methods, how we navigate others' strengths and weaknesses.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“It's only natural to forget when remembering hurts so much.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“After so many years alone, after pushing relationships away, perhaps I've paid in full for my mistakes and I can put them to bed. Maybe I'm finally allowed a little happiness.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“And who, in love, doesn’t hope for a lassoed moon? After all, that’s what love is, isn’t it?”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“Listen, I’m no damsel in distress, trust me, I’ve survived a lot more than most, but you can’t underestimate the overwhelming power of someone swooping in to save you after a lifetime of having to save yourself.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“The dead feel different, don’t they? Once the light has gone, the people we love become strangers, don’t they?”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“as if somehow with enough money reality can become malleable.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“We all have something inside us that we fear would repel the world if it ever came out.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“As the saying goes: If you can measure it, you can manage it. People can rarely be managed.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“We all make mistakes and live with them, but we can make a virtue of the fact. We can turn one bad day into a hundred good ones. One bad choice into a lifetime of good choices.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“I know nothing I can do will change the past; nothing can change what I did, or who I am in consequence. But the past can stop here. I can change. I can be better. A fresh start, a new me - a more honest me.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“He liked the reminder that no matter what you do, how much work you put in, it will always be misunderstood.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“The dead feel different, don't they? Once the light has gone, the people we love become strangers, don't they? We cannot reach them and something different is left in their place.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“Why a thriller?"
He casts his eyes up at the flickering screens, stories upon stories feeding through to us in silence. "I like their mechanics, their intricacy. But in the end, all is explained." He shakes his head, lost in thought, and finally looks back at me. "That kind of clarity, it's so rare we find it in life.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“Listen, I'm no damsel in distress, trust me, I've survived a lot more than most, but you can't underestimate the overwhelming power of someone swooping in to save you after a lifetime of having to save yourself.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“We're going to survive this, you and I. They say you can't choose your family but they're wrong. You can. It just takes way more effort than most people are willing to put in.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game

“People around the Holbecks seem to find life harder to deal with than most.”
― Catherine Steadman, The Family Game