Gone Tonight Quotes

“Our minds do this all the time. They talk us out of things we don’t want to know.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“But our kids don’t focus on the fact that we try as hard as we can to undo the mistakes of the previous generation. They don’t know how difficult it is for us to break the patterns we were steeped in during our formative years. They only see the errors we make. The ones taught to us, and the ones that are all our own.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Sometimes there is so much to say that words aren’t enough.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Sometimes the thing we’ve been searching for has been staring us in the face all along. Perhaps we miss the clue because subconsciously we don’t want to acknowledge it.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Our brains form memories constantly, from the second we wake until we fall asleep. But if the moment we mentally capture doesn’t intersect with our attention, we lose the recollection forever. Emotional significance also helps move our memories into our longer-term stockpiles.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“didn’t know it was possible to be so deeply angry with someone and simultaneously love them so much that you wanted to hug them until it hurt you both.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“We vanish in the eyes of men when we hit our forties. We dive into roles like motherhood and our identities slip away. We disappear at the hands of predators. We’re conditioned to shrink”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“I guess I’ve never really looked at my mother as an individual. She has always felt more like a planet that orbits around me. Maybe that’s true for most daughters, at least until we reach a certain point in adulthood. We define our mothers through the lens of how they relate to us.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“I sent you prayers every single night,” my dad tells me. I think of “Wild World” playing on the trucker’s radio, and the night cleaner at Target who concealed us, and the man who bought Catherine and me dinner on that cold December evening when we were so hungry. I whisper, “They worked.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Unhealthy patterns echo down family lines. They’re bequeathed from generation to generation, like blue-chip stocks or hair color. But there is a silver lining. If we’re aware of them, we can edit the script that feels embedded in our genes.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Because there is one thing we women do even better than disappearing: We protect our children.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Of course I wasn’t the only girl Coach abused. There’s always more than one.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“My life was far easier when I believed the lies my mother fed me.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“wonder fleetingly how different the world would be if people asked instead, “What isn’t okay?” and we responded with the truth. Ethan’s phone buzzes and I toss it back”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“may no longer be a daughter or a sister, but I am—and will always be—a mother.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“I didn’t know it was possible to be so deeply angry with someone and simultaneously love them so much that you wanted to hug them until it hurt you both.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight. —Fennel Hudson”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Our minds do this all the time. They talk us out of things we don’t want to know. Right!”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight