Please Join Us Quotes

“Disasterizing, I called it. Seeing the tornado before it formed, the hail before it fell. It was supposed to help me deal with what was to come, to make me less anxious when it inevitably did. But it didn’t work. Instead, I suffered twice.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“The endless generational fight. One generation always thinks the younger one is lazy and naïve, and the younger one always thinks the people who came before are bitter and ruined everything. Both of us are right.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“Wasn’t NXIVM called Executive Success Programs when it started?” Dan and I had been mesmerized by The Vow, and he’d done a deep dive on NXIVM after we’d watched it, reading several books by ex-members and listening to endless podcasts. “I think you kind of want it to be a cult so you can put all that knowledge to good use.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“You never cared about my future. You gave me those shares out of guilt. You abandoned me. You left me with Dad and his drugs and the girls that changed every week, when you went away. You hid me from the world. You missed ten years of my life.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“More cynical than dragging three women over the coals in court, their lives picked over like the trash just so you can win a court case? Would you want that for your daughter?” I look at Michelle when I say this. Can I penetrate the fog that she lives in? Or am I the one in the fog?”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“A billionaire, an inventor, a man with ten million Twitter followers. He’s never married, tends to date models and singers on their way up. He started his first company at twenty-three and has a flair for marketing. With a different set of choices, he might’ve been a politician”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“Clearly a lie,” Dan says. “Samantha and Athena were included because they were Sullivan’s victims, Heather because of the takeover, and Nicole for the trial.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“But you know how my mother left her career behind and went to Africa? How she had this great spiritual awakening? Well, that was me she was leaving behind too. I was ten.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“Running plus salad every day for lunch was shaving off the pounds, but it made for boring eating.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“You might think you do, but it’s more than you know. That client you didn’t get, Nicole? That part that went to someone else, Samantha? That deal that fell apart, Heather? That’s not because of a lack of talent or motivation or hard work. Maybe for others, but not for you. We’ve vetted you. We know.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“Long dark hair in beachy waves. Manicured hands. Pilates-class thin. The requisite yoga pants and a tank top that showed off her toned arms and shoulders.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“Had I really put on fifteen pounds without noticing? Was that why I felt slightly out of breath all the time? Because my clothes were cutting off my circulation?”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us

“Being a partner isn’t good enough. Being in every “best of” lawyer publication doesn’t cut it. Putting yourself out there in a million ways that make you uncomfortable doesn’t mean shit.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us