No One Knows Us Here Quotes

“Jamila appeared on the Today show. She gave a TED Talk about women in tech, how vital they were, how important it was for them to rise up and let their voices—their ideas—be heard over the “persistent chatter of men.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“She became best friends with a twenty-year-old who enabled her eating disorder. Wendy was wasting away before my eyes, and instead of doing anything about that, I went to France, murdered my boyfriend, and got locked up in jail. I really couldn’t have done a worse job if I had tried.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“It had all happened right under Jamila’s nose. He’d been taking the company in his own direction for months. He had even flown to Japan without her. The Japanese investors were old-school, he had told her. He knew how to handle them. “You know what he told me? That they didn’t respond to women in power. Especially not Black women in power.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“The baggy clothes, the empty containers in the sink, the fainting. I hadn’t noticed. I hadn’t paid attention. I’d let this happen, and Leo had watched everything, watched my sister dwindle down to skin and bones, and he hadn’t said a word.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“It’s no wonder they’re friends. They’ve both been in treatment for attempting suicide . . . What’s Wendy’s grandmother going to say when she learns about that? That you left Wendy with an unstable twenty-year-old”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“When you had all the money in the world, this was the kind of thing you could do. Hire a young woman to have sex with you, to pretend to love you, to agree to marry you.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“I smiled as I imagined this, me traipsing over the cobblestones carrying a wicker basket filled with baguettes and carrots with their tops still on.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“That was one job he would never do, no matter how desperate. It was dangerous, he explained, to spend all day saying someone else’s words. You’d lose a part of yourself.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“You know he’s selling surveillance packages to unstable governments. They’re already using Glasseyes to arrest dissenters in Singapore. You have to have read about this”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“But it’s difficult. I have a career, they have a career—when do you ever see each other? When do you have time to fall in love?” “I know.” My eyelids”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“What a wonderful way for the “less fortunate” to participate in the arts, to immerse themselves in the world of music. The bald guy was really patting himself on the back there, bragging how as an organization, they were pioneers of this cutting-edge innovation,”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“We must have known each other in a past life, I told him. When you meet someone and feel that connection, like you know them and you’ve always known them, it’s because you do know them. You’ve known them for centuries. Like your souls are linked by threads, crisscrossed over millennia.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“To be the perfect daughter. I was terrified of ruining it, of breaking the spell. Terrified that Jason would leave and we’d be penniless and my mom would get that vacant look in her eyes again.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“Some people even made a point to go into establishments with Glasseyes, so their followers could observe them there, holding”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“I don’t get it,” I said. “You could go out with anyone. Actresses, models. You’re rich, successful. Good-looking.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“This was Leo Glass in his element. Cocky, sure of himself, parading around in his signature navy-blue hoodie. He owned twenty-six hoodies, each identical to the last.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“Mira would fill in the right words. Sugar baby? Escort? Working girl? Prostitute? Or maybe she was one of those people who wanted to reclaim a derogatory title. High-class whore?”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“He was your father,” I managed to say at last. “Your own father.” Fathers do bad things to their daughters all the time. I knew that. I just didn’t think Jason would do that to Wendy. It honestly hadn’t occurred to me. “I never would have left,” I said. “You’ve got to believe me.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“the minute you take off for college, I never hear from you again? And then our parents die and it’s like, ‘Have a nice life’?”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“This is the kind of important work I was doing instead of hanging out with my little sister, my last remaining relative on earth, who had run away just to be with me.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“She smiled and raised a perfectly shaped black brow. “Oh, you know me. Cinderella off to the ball at the stroke of midnight.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“People were walking around the city wearing face masks and carrying parasols to protect their outfits from the ashfall, like we were living in apocalyptic times, like we were the dad and that kid in The Road.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“what a loving mother would”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here

“Men loved lecturing women, treating a date like an opportunity to deliver a little lesson, bestowing these gems on me like a favor.”
― Rebecca Kelley, No One Knows Us Here