Someone Else's Secret Quotes

“But now that she was doing it, now that it had happened to her, she was scared. She didn’t want to be there. She didn’t know what she wanted. She just needed to get away.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“For several years after that, Georgie’s drink of choice would be a vodka lemonade, and it would make her think of moments that almost happened but instead dissolved into a lonely reflection on the surface of a chlorine pool.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“But it seemed to her that all the adults in her life kept everything trapped inside, even the things that everyone else knew to be true.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“Certain things that are meant to remain secret.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“Conversations were the thing that gave her the most anxiety.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“Twenty-two was the age when she could be. Twenty-two was freedom. She just had to hold on until then.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“What she couldn’t express to Rose, or anyone, was that it wasn’t just about her love of art. It was more than that. She wanted to be part of a different world. She wanted to have a job that would give her an identity she was proud of. She wanted to be interesting.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“Even now, the only thing she felt, thinking about that night, was shame. Acknowledging the crime would only worsen that.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“Except, for her, the movement was just a reminder that she was one of the women choosing to stay silent. She”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret

“She was hoping that, instead, a great, global natural disaster would rocket humanity into panic, and her small problems would just disappear in the chaos.”
― Julia Spiro, Someone Else's Secret