The Family Across the Street Quotes

“There is a point in life at which a new day ceases to be a thing of joy and instead becomes something to be faced and dealt with.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“Monsters are made, not born.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“Wouldn’t you like someone to know what you’ve been through? Not what you’ve done, but what you’ve been through,”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“should have taken note of when that changed. I know now that when someone stops loving you, it doesn’t happen quickly. It’s a pulling away, a distancing, a creating of space between you and them, and then one day you realise that the love of your life no longer thinks you’re the love of her life.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“from. And as he bursts in, he looks at what has happened, at who is there, and he knows that whatever you do in your life, you can never outrun karma. Karma never loses an address.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“Can’t you take a joke?’ means the person being insulted is not allowed to get upset.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“hairdresser”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“I’ve been hiding the monster for such a long time. Perhaps I haven’t been hiding him as well as I thought. He’s crept out bit by bit over the years and now there’s more monster than me. That’s what it feels like right now”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“It seems that people now are open and honest about their lives all over the internet and then coy about exactly the same things in person. Perhaps because it’s difficult to tell the truth about yourself when you’re looking directly at someone.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“be”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“This can be the worst day of your life if you want it to be. There can never be another day as bad as this. If that’s what you want.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“be told what to do. Easy to say if there were no children involved. They make a woman, a mother, so vulnerable.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“Hey now,’ she said gently and she reached up and wiped a tear away. ‘This can be the worst day of your life if you want it to be. There can never be another day as bad as this. If that’s what you want.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“It’s not necessary to blow up everything around you just to prove you’ve been hurt. But sometimes, that’s exactly what happens, and when it does, those involved can hardly be expected to survive without being affected.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“I can’t say exactly when things changed because it was quite gradual. Simply pointing to their divorce and saying, ‘That’s when it happened,’ doesn’t feel right. It happened over time, one incident after another. And at some point, I realised that I didn’t matter anymore. My mother would deny that. When she thought I was still listening she would shake her head and say, ‘That’s not what happened. You’re remembering it wrong.’ But I know the truth. Caught up in their own fascinating drama, my parents stopped seeing me.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“There is a point in life at which a new day ceases to be a thing of joy and instead becomes something to be faced and dealt with. Gladys wishes she could pinpoint the age at which she stopped being delighted by the rising sun.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“It seems that people now are open and honest about their lives all over the internet and then coy about exactly the same things in person.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“They were his pain and his anger detailed over his body, scars that could be seen.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street