Get Lucky Quotes

“There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“Her's what I tell myself now. That it's vital to learn how to make the best of things. That there is no tenderness without bravery. That if things hadn't been so bad they could never have gotten so good. And that it's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. Except for this: Every now and then, when you are impossibly lucky you rise above yourself-and get both.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“Life is always a struggle between who you are and who you'd like to be. It's always a negotiation between how you want it and how it is. There's no changing that.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“That's the truth about emails: You can't take them back.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“That an economy based on buying stuff needed to keep us all dissatisfied and miserable, needed to keep us focused on what we didn’t have instead of what we did, and needed to convince us that things like happiness and peace and beauty could be bought.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“And that it’s always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. Except for this: Every now and then, when you are impossibly lucky, you rise above yourself—and get both.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“There were so many components of a rich life. Love was one, sure. But so was friendship, so was helping people. So was taking walks, and singing, and wondering about things.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“Barni loved talking about the dresses. "Aren't they huge? I've just always been this way," she said, twirling a little. "Just born healthy, I guess."

Oh, God. I hated her so much.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“It’s such a sweet thing about people: that when we are truly happy, we can’t imagine ever being unhappy again.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“Life is always a struggle between who you are and who you'd like to be.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“If my idea of love was Santa Claus, why couldn't my dad's be Dolly Parton? Who was I to criticize? I didn't know the first thing about it.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“That's what I lost when I lost her, in addition to the universe of things a girl loses when she loses her mother: I lost the one person who knew me exactly for who I was and adored me anyway.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“But it was one thing to know what was wrong. It was a much more impossible thing to know how to fix it.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“That's one of the things girls just do- circle around and around back through the past: analyzing, processing, searching for meaning.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“You make it, I'll bake it.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“heartbreaks and joys in life are all tangled up together. You have to be good at one to be good at the other.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“Here’s what I tell myself: It’s a good thing Mackie’s not my friend. If she were a friend, she’d be gone by now. She’d have become one of those people with kids that you never see, and then years would go by and one day we’d bump into each other at the movie theater and give each other an enormous hug to overcompensate and say, “How are you? You look terrific!” But she’s not a friend. She’s my sister, and I have no choice but to keep hanging on to her the best I can.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“should mention that my sister and I were close. We weren’t best friends exactly, though—because a best friend is a person you choose. A best friend, in most cases, is a temporary person, too, until she moves away, or gets a promotion and starts working too hard, or just drifts off.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“But it's amazing how often the universe gives you the opposite of what you want.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky

“It's such a sweet thing about people that when we're truly happy, we can't imagine ever being unhappy again.”
― Katherine Center, Get Lucky