The Silent Daughter Quotes

“Maybe deep down, we never expect our secrets to be forever.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“There’s a before, and there’s an after. There’s always that seesaw moment, the split-second where everything changes.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“Of all the monsters out there, it’s the self-righteous ones, the ones who think they’re beyond blame, that are the most dangerous. Because if they have enough power, if they’re loud enough or smooth enough, their voice can convince others, too.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“missed out on. She and I have been talking more, recently. The more she opens up to me about her past the more I can see how she never got what she needed from her parents - how for so much of her life, even when she was raising me, what she was craving was to be someone’s baby, not someone’s mom.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“Maybe I’ve always been drawn to what could drag me under.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“Think but this, and all is mended— That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“just”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“he’d”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“and I could start to heal those old rifts if I finally came home.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“from”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“But sometimes it’s a fine line, isn’t it?’ she went on. ‘Between stable and “unstable”?’ She gazed out the tiny window. ‘Aren’t we all just trying to keep our balance any way we can?”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“Horton had already trained me to be. Humans are so predictable, aren’t we? The way we seek the same patterns over and over, even the patterns that hurt us the most. Sometimes especially the ones that hurt us the most.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“That blank expression, where you were never really sure what she was thinking. I never saw her angry or sulking - or giddy or impatient or out of control. She didn’t talk much to other girls in her year from what I saw. It was hard to tell if she had friends.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“Kennedy, Fiona. Beloved daughter. Loyal friend.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“Come on,’ he said over his shoulder, snapping the button so the trunk eased shut, made its smug clicking noise.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“I think of myself at her age, and Fiona, and what I lost. But did you lose it, Sadie? Or did you destroy it?”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter