More Than You'll Ever Know Quotes

“History is written by those who have power and want to keep it.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“When we’re shocked someone isn’t who we thought they were, it’s usually not because they hid it so well—more like, the closer we are to a person, the less clearly we see them.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“History is written by those who have power and want to keep it. So when you read your textbooks, ask yourself who is telling the story—and what they have to gain by your”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“By the time I read about Lore Rivera, my mother had been dead for a dozen years. Dead, but not gone. She was like my shadow, angling dark and long in the right light, inescapable and untouchable.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Motherhood is the thief you invite into your home.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“what is more unnatural—more dangerous—than a woman who claims to have no ties in the world?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Mami once told me it’s impossible to get everything from one person. That at best, we get eighty percent. The other twenty, ni modo, we have to find it somewhere else.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“The thing about a spontaneous act is that the consequences are long-lasting.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“One of the cruelest parts of getting old is how unnecessary you become, like a helium balloon released by a child's hand, floating and forgotten, drifting toward the inevitable pop.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“That one’s call had been so out of the blue. It was like being hit on the back of the head, waking up to find your purse gone, your car stolen. Things taken from you purely because someone else wanted them.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“For the first time in his life, I hated my son. But not more than I loved him.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“And somehow women are expected to forget this afterward, how they are the closest thing to God, breaking themselves open to create new life. Motherhood is supposed to be quiet and pretty. But motherhood is not pretty. Motherhood has teeth.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Men who need control are so easy to manipulate. All you have to do is give them what they want, right up until the moment you take it from them.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“She doesn’t tell Andres, of course, about Fabian or the cuates, but what she reveals feels so raw, so true, that it eclipses the fundamental untruth of her omissions.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“It wasn't that she no longer loved Fabian or wanted their marriage to end. It was a different kind of yearning. A nameless suspicion that there was more to herself than she'd ever accessed, and only by falling in love could she discover it, for only then do we become new to ourselves again.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Lore smiled. “The kind who reads about people’s tragedies and wonders how she can use them for herself. But, mija, I understand. Really. And I want you to get your book deal. You deserve it.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Or had she, with her maternal caring, conned me into a sense of loyalty to her, instead of to the truth or the story or even to justice?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“It’s a gut punch, the subject left like all those women I’d read about at the start of this, who’d fallen for men shuffling wives like cards. The journalist like a con man, there for one reason: the story.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“And don’t think I didn’t notice the other photos. You have kids of your own! All this time, I wondered how you were so good with mine, and it’s because you’re a mother. A fucking mother.” He flung my wrists away, and my hands slapped against my legs. “What kind of mother does this to her children?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“She doesn’t want to want this baby, but she does. Impossibly, the baby feels like she contains all three of them: Lore, Fabian, Andres.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“It always amazed me, how, even with their perpetual whys, the boys just accepted that Fabian was in prison. As if prison were a city like Laredo, a place where people were born and sometimes stayed.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“feels like less of a man because she is the one keeping the roof over their heads.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“But that’s not what we’re talking about, is it?” I asked. “We’re not talking about three adults consenting to a polyamorous relationship. We’re talking about one person deciding for all three. One person thinking she could have it all.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Marta is her best friend and Sergio is Fabian’s. Their social lives revolve around children’s birthdays and Sunday lunches at Mami and Papi’s house. But she’s supposed to be a single thirty-three-year-old, and what single thirty-three-year-old doesn’t have friends?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Lore feels a slow crumble in her chest. He deserves better than what she is doing. If they continue, she is going to hurt him. She is going to hurt everyone. She feels this, the way a dormant volcano must sense its own potential for destruction. Though right now, the heat is a smolder, contained.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“This is a family.” Mateo leaned forward, an urgency to the curve of his body. “My family. How would you feel if strangers banged down your door, demanding to hear about the worst time in your life, then published it for the world to see?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Women have only the potent force of their imagination. And that’s all Andres is to Lore. Despite the phone calls, he is, essentially, a figment. The memory of kissing him as unreal as the idea of making love with him.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Then I thought of the woman I’d met today, her linen shirt and running shorts, thighs dimpled in the unrelenting sun. The ways we can hide in plain sight.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“rewarding them all for the hard work of sleeping, like no one else could pull a soggy box of waffles from the freezer and slide the icy disks into a toaster.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Steak is Fabian’s specialty, always crisp and salty on the outside, pink as a rose on the inside.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know