Sorry I Missed You Quotes

“Too bad how the end of something could ruin the beginning and middle of it.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“Just one of those moments, you know, where you have no new information, but your brain rearranges all of what you do have and it suddenly makes sense.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“I didn’t get that you could love the people you were with while still agonizing over the unanswered questions about the ones you weren’t with.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“I didn’t know what it was like to not know where someone is, someone who’s intrinsically a part of you; I didn’t know how much a person would want to know where that person was and why they weren’t with you. I didn’t get that you could love the people you were with while still agonizing over the unanswered questions about the ones you weren’t with. And the worst part of all of this is that now I get it, and now I would be so sympathetic to them, and I would help them find their bio family because I get it. But I only get it because they’re not here.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“You don’t always know what it means when something means something. You just know that it means something. That it has meaning.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“I think that’s part of being an adult, you know? Your life is just frayed at the edges, and you have whole haunted cities full of people who owe you explanations and apologies. Cities full of ghosts. The end.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“To my mom and dad I’m sorry that people were concerned about my upbringing after reading that other book I wrote. For what it’s worth, I think you did a great job.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“Love was like a sewer: something you knew about but didn’t think about until someone left a manhole cover open and you just tripped right in and your stomach dropped like you were on a roller coaster and you felt thrilled but also like you were going to barf. Messy, painful, disorienting. Amazing.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“She wouldn’t mind being cremated next to a coffee shop, but she disliked the idea of drinking coffee next to a crematorium.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“She knew she wasn’t the first person to be left like that; leaving was what people did best and most often.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“and maybe if we all have baggage, then baggage isn’t a good reason not to love someone.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“the promise of something big ahead had made the university years like a second chance at family and healthy relationships and future plans. She was homesick for those years now. She’d never been homesick for her actual home for a single second in her life, but this version of that sickness was worse—she knew it was—and she resented all the kids she’d ever known who’d been sad at sleepovers and summer camps because they wanted to go home. After all: in the end, they could.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“Right. Exactly. You’re talking about cities full of ghosts, and I say those ghosts all only exist in your imagination.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“The ghost isn’t the person; it’s the feelings attached to the person.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“Strange, she thought, how someone you disliked could bring out the good in you but for the worst reasons.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“She spent much of that flight contemplating all the usual things people worried about when they were leaving anything for anything else-- whether she was running "away" or "toward," whether she had failed or outgrown, whether she was being stupidly impulsive or thrilling spontaneous.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“That is how explanations work. They explain. The do not assuage your guilty conscience.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“but maybe it was about the energy, the emotional work. If you put that kind of work or energy or—love?—into something for another person, and they didn’t use it or receive it, where did it go?”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“They crashed together in time with their discordant, four-chord punk songs, took shoes to their faces, and generally danced like they were trying to beat the snot out of each other. They felt everything. It had been glorious.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“Tanya’s not a missing person. Tanya’s dead. And the other twin—Kate? Mackenzie?—is still missing. And, in my mind, she’s also the main suspect in the murder of Tanya Simons.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“That just because someone leaves you, that doesn’t mean that you are not still perfectly fine and valuable, and it definitely doesn’t mean you should leave yourself. This”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“If you put that kind of work or energy or—love?—into something for another person, and they didn’t use it or receive it, where did it go?”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“A mirror was designed so a person could see their own face. A face, with its eyes and nose and mouth and ears on the side, was designed to perceive the world, not to perceive itself. And what did people do? They made a thing that would block the world in front of them and replace that view with their own reflection.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“A bell jingled over Sunna’s head as she entered the coffee shop, and suddenly, she felt like she was back in Toronto, but ten years earlier. Where the bigger city’s coffee shops had moved on to more modern—Instagram-worthy—design trends and oat milk lattes, this place still had the chalkboard menu behind the counter, a plaque on the wall with a quote about not being able to function without coffee in that once-trendy bridesmaid font. A soft folk song played in the background, and the baristas laughed together as they made drinks.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“I think”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“That just because someone leaves you, that doesn’t mean that you are not still perfectly fine and valuable, and it definitely doesn’t mean you should leave yourself.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“when you’re really hoping for something, and when that hope takes up so much space inside your rib cage that it’s hard to eat or breathe in, you have to dismiss the things that make sense to make room for it. It’s a survival thing.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“when Richard left me that first time, I didn’t think it was for any one reason—I thought it was all of them. Every time I found a flaw in myself after that, I just added it to the list of Reasons Richard Left Me.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“A mirror was designed so a person could see their own face. A face, with its eyes and nose and mouth and ears on the side, was designed to perceive the world, not to perceive itself. And what did people do? They made a thing that would block the world in front of them and replace that view with their own reflection. There was nothing wrong with mirrors. They were, Maude thought, just unhelpful. She decided to look at this face for one more minute, only to make sure there wasn’t lipstick on the teeth or mascara on the cheekbones. She would look objectively, like she was looking at a stranger; then she would turn away and think about all the things that were actually important about this day. This time she saw the face differently.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You

“This was the thing about Maude: she didn’t pretend. And a hug that really, for sure meant something would be quite a beautiful thing. Sunna suddenly kind of wished that Maude would actually hug her.”
― Suzy Krause, Sorry I Missed You