Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? Quotes

“There are as many sides to the truth as people telling the story.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“We always have a choice; we only say we don't to soothe our conscience from what we're capable of.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“There are two types of people in this world, Mary: people with time to sit under the trees, looking up at the sky and pondering life”—she jostled the gold balls in her hand—“and those who end up hanging from those same trees, looking down on the life they might have had, had they been born different.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Sometimes the emotional restraint it took to conceal her unhappiness was just a hair away from masochism.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“When people don’t like themselves, it makes them mean.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“That's the thing about lies. You have to keep them alive.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Things happen before you're ready, most times, before you know they're happening.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“There are as many sides of the truth as people telling the story.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“People's souls are their business.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Fame begot privilege, but you traded it for freedom.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Maybe we should all marry so we don't die alone," Kitty said, thinking of her mother, who probably would. [...] "Marriage doesn't ensure that. The only surety is money. It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as it is a poor one.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Time had stopped the first time their lips touched, and every time since.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Elise could mimic emotions she didn’t feel on command but had no ability to express the ones that were true.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“She was a witness to the evil and godliness of men.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“We have to make our own luck. Be twice as smart, three times as good—but don’t you let them know it.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Forgetting is the only reason she’s still breathing.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Jim Crow had the power to possess.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“For whenever she left Cottonwood, she encountered Jim Crow. “He’s their superhero. Gives them power over us, lets them get their way. If they didn’t have him, they’d have to do their own work—really try.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“At the height of the FBI’s power,” Sarah began, “J. Edgar Hoover said that the biggest threat to national security was Black unity. They killed a sympathetic president, Martin, and Malcolm; dismantled the Black Panthers, labeled them as enemies of the United States; and then flooded our communities with drugs and guns and sent in more police for more arrests to fill up prisons. And that’s just in my lifetime. So, if money is power, giving people this money makes them a threat.” Sarah spoke like she knew from experience.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“That’s why I plan to be rich. Can’t depend on any man.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“With one’s attention turned outward, one forgets one’s own ability to harness understanding of the truth.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Apathy was a defense mechanism.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“When people don’t like themselves, it makes them mean. You understand?”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Time”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

“Mary was half-Negro and half-White—like the bus, like the world. She used to look for the delineating line, imagining one hidden somewhere, drawn with chalk.”
― Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?