The Atonement Quotes

“Sometimes people are more broken together than they could ever be apart.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“There are some things that love can’t fix.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Sometimes things just don’t work out. Sometimes people are more broken together than they could ever be apart.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Sometimes…even people who love each other aren’t meant to be together.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“There are few things that appear stronger than a woman who seems put together.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“It’s like that sometimes. When the place you’re visiting hasn’t changed a bit, but you have. When you’re so different from who you were the last time you were there—be it a day or ten years ago—that nothing feels right or normal or familiar anymore.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Ainsley’s red hair was…part of her. It was special. Beautiful. It was one of my favorite things about her. How could she even consider changing it? I felt as if I might be sick as I threw the box back into the trash with disgust. How dare she?”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Kissing her was as easy as breathing. Easier, maybe. It was the only thing that made sense in the moments that made no sense at all.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Apathy?”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“juxtaposition,”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“When the place you’re visiting hasn’t changed a bit, but you have. When you’re so different from who you were the last time you were there—be it a day or ten years ago—that nothing feels right or normal or familiar anymore.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“What in the child bride is this?”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“I was disappointed—no, not a strong enough word—I was furious with myself for ever letting a man—a monster—control me. For ever letting him make me think my only choice was to do whatever it took to keep him in my life. For ever letting him believe I was something less than whole without him. I was a whole person before Peter. I could be whole again without him. I would be whole again without him.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Leave it to work to get in the way of a crisis. The world doesn’t ever stop needing things from you, does it?”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Eventually, it stops being your fault and starts being mine.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“you should never stay in a situation where you don’t feel loved and respected.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“And now, he was refusing to die.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“I was a whole person before Peter. I could be whole again without him. I would be whole again without him.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“Handpicking every part of your life, every person in your life.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“staring at the cup of tea.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement

“I was disappointed—no, not a strong enough word—I was furious with myself for ever letting a man—a monster—control me. For ever letting him make me think my only choice was to do whatever it took to keep him in my life. For ever letting him believe I was something less than whole without him.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Atonement