The Reunion Quotes

“The same way everyone’s happy in the middle of their life. I had everything I wanted, but somehow it all felt a bit lackluster. A dream is its shiniest when it’s still inside your head.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“I had questioned my judgment so often in my life, feeling unable to read people, but with Grant, I never had to read him. He showed me who he was over and over again until I believed it. It was rare to find people like that.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“I remembered him. In the way you catch a vaguely familiar scent that brings you back to a specific childhood memory, or the feeling of pulling up to the house or place you haven’t visited in several months. Kissing him was like coming home, though he’d never been my home.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“You can’t trick your heart. You can’t convince it or reason with it or bribe it.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“A dream is its shiniest when it’s still inside your head.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“At the end of the day, I’d chosen the little black dress that made me feel amazing. The one I loved wearing out of the house. The one that made everyone see me, notice me, envy me. But the sweater was always there. And on hard days, I still craved the sweater. Even if I rarely allowed myself to admit it.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“You can’t trick your heart. You can’t convince it or reason with it or bribe it. It is what it is and we are what we are, and at the end of the day, the only reason we go through all we do is so that we can be happy, right?”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“But, you see, the thing about a liar is, they’re really good at lying…”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“Everything is hanging by a thread every day. A single move, a single choice, can change the course of your life completely.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“My entire world had gone up in flames, and I was still holding the match.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“You don’t have to be the one throwing the flames in order to help spread the fire.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“That’s the burden parents face, isn’t it? When we’re with them, we take it all for granted. We wish for time away. We wish for a moment of peace. Then, as soon as we’re away, supposed to be enjoying our peace, we wish to be right in the middle of it all again. Childhood is both very long and very short and, as parents, there’s nothing we’re more aware of than that.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“The heart wants what it wants,”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion