My Murder Quotes

“Angela had been the first of us. She’d been found on a park bench by some dawn jogger or dog walker, her throat slit, her sandals lined up next to her bare feet. And did you ever notice how these are the people who are always discovering the bodies, these people whose lives are so orderly that they can rise early enough to find a whole other human being dumped on the ground?”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“That’s the thing about having a baby: they are a part of you that is outside of you, so you can love them in the way you can’t stand to love yourself.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“It was easy to make fun of Angela. And if it was unkind, which of course it was, it was also a way to ask without asking, Am I like her? No, you’re not like her. Okay, phew, you’re not like her, either. I don’t need to tell you how many women’s friendships are built upon this firm foundation.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“Mystery is essential, they say. Mystery. Well, I was in one of those right now, and I couldn't say that I liked it very much.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“Everyone loves a dead woman," Fern said. "As long as she's the right kind of dead woman.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“Why was I like this? And why were others not like this? Why didn’t they understand—and why could I not explain—that the gulping feeling wasn’t me swallowing something too big? It was something too big swallowing me.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“He was no man. He was any man. He was a man in a world that hated women.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“I don’t know about kind. It’s true.” He looked past me, out the window that wasn’t a window. “I understand how it is. You come up with your reasons after the fact, for why you did what you did, but it feels like you’re telling yourself a story. A story about yourself.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“was easy to make fun of Angela. And if it was unkind, which of course it was, it was also a way to ask without asking, Am I like her? No, you’re not like her. Okay, phew, you’re not like her, either. I don’t need to tell you how many women’s friendships are built upon this firm foundation. “Hey,”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“I'll say one more thing: I want to live.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“It wasn’t that I hadn’t been taught to think; it was that I’d been taught to see a thing from this way and that way and another way still, until I had an entire crowd’s worth of perspectives in my head. To hold one position, I’d been taught, was unsubtle, lazy, even crude.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“Things just happen. And then they're happening.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder

“I felt like the echo instead of the sound.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder: A Novel

“And there came a small sound from the small person in my arms. My rib cage expanded with surprise and wonder, expanded with love, until I thought it would crack open and could not rightly be called a cage anymore.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder: A Novel

“Do you ever think about how tears undo themselves as they run down your face, how that's what crying is, tears unrolling themselves until they are nothing?”
― Katie Williams, My Murder: A Novel

“The tears ran freely down his cheeks. "Is this what people feel like? Bad? Guilty? And when they do the right thing, the virtuous thing, is it only to keep themselves from feeling like this? Is that what good is? What it means to be good?”
― Katie Williams, My Murder: A Novel

“She paused to tell the receptionist that she was going out to "the good place" and could she bring anything back?

"Coffee? Chocolate? Bourbon?" she asked.

"How about the lost hours of my life?" the receptionist said.

"Strychnine it is.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder: A Novel

“You think I don't understand curiosity? Lady, I am made of curiosity. I am a hundred dead cats.”
― Katie Williams, My Murder: A Novel