Hidden Pictures Quotes

“We don’t know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust your brain”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I see her every night,” Teddy says. “She sleeps under my bed so I can hear her singing.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“Protecting you, Mallory. I’ve always protected you. Don’t you remember your job interview? All those rude and nasty questions about your qualifications? I was trying to scare you away. I tried scaring all the candidates away. But you were persistent. You really wanted to be here. And Caroline thought you were the solution to all our problems.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“seemed so epic. But I mentioned the challenges to Adrian’s mother and she gave me some good advice. She said I shouldn’t try to write a book, I should just sit down at my laptop and tell the story, one sentence at a time, using the same language I’d use to tell a friend over coffee. She said it was okay not to sound like J. K. Rowling. It was fine if I sounded like Mallory Quinn from Philadelphia.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“And I have this horrible realization that I am just not a very creative person. Isn’t that an awful thing to discover about yourself?”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“We don't know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“Heroin is such a big scary word but it feels like Oxy at a fraction of the price. You just have to get past any squeamishness regarding needles. Fortunately, there were plenty of YouTube videos to help me along—tutorials (ostensibly for diabetics) showing how to find a vein and how to gently draw back the plunger at just the right moment, to make sure you’ve made contact with the bloodstream”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“A woman was murdered. Annie Barrett. She was an artist, a painter, and she used your house as her studio.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I’m not very good in cars. I travel everywhere by bus and subway, and this is my first time leaving Philadelphia in nearly a year. We’re traveling only ten miles into the suburbs but it feels like I’m blasting off to Mars. “What’s wrong?” Russell asks. “Nothing.” “You’re tense, Quinn. Relax.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I’m not even sure I need meetings anymore. I think I can handle things on my own.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I spy a crumpled wad of Kleenex on the nightstand beside my bed.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I have a whole day to kill before the pool party starts at three o’clock. But I can sense there’s no talking Adrian out of the trip, that he would chase every lead to the end of the earth to keep me from leaving Spring Brook.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“The original owner of your house was a man named George Barrett. He was an engineer for DuPont, the chemical company, up in Gibbstown. He had a wife and three daughters, and his cousin Annie came to live here in 1946, right after World War II.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I’m not asking you to take care of me. I’m saying I would take care of you.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I’m grateful to the judge who sent me to rehab instead of prison.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“What do you say?” “Gesundheit. Or ‘to your health.’ It means the same thing.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“Caroline seems surprised to find this last picture in the stack. “I meant to set this one aside,” she says”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust your brain anymore. In fact, you need to understand that your brain has become your own worst enemy.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“don’t know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“good. But when these Mexicans come through, you need to show a little discretion. A little common sense. For your personal safety.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“but they’re talking too fast for me to keep up.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“says an addict’s brain will “remember” happy fantasies so we can avoid dwelling on real memories—all the shameful things we did to get high, all the shitty ways we hurt good people who loved”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“It was like a fluttery feeling on the periphery of my attention—a kind of spidey sense. I bet there’s a good chance you’ve felt it yourself, that you know exactly what I’m talking about. “Plus, there’s a kind of sound.” Her eyes went wide. “Really? You hear something?” “Sometimes. It’s very high-pitched. Like when a mosquito buzzes too close to your ear.” She reached for her laptop so fast”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“trying”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“And once I figured that out, everything turned from bad to shit.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“Deep down inside, I think you always knew you were a girl.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“He’s forever reminding me that women runners don’t peak until age thirty-five, that my best years are way ahead of me.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“And I didn’t have the words to explain—I just knew. It was like a fluttery feeling on the periphery of my attention—a kind of spidey sense. I bet there’s a good chance you’ve felt it yourself, that you know exactly what I’m talking about.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures