Quotes of Kendra Elliot

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“Sometimes a clean break with a fresh start is the healthiest way to handle the changes in life. People step up to the task when they are faced with challenges.” ― Kendra Elliot, Alone
“Who would have thought that sharing a cup of coffee in the morning would be one of the highlights of his day?” ― Kendra Elliot, Bridged
“Memory is inherently unreliable. With time, it degrades. With trauma, it fragments. In isolation, it festers.” ― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister
“Everybody wishes they could escape from their shitty life sometimes, but they don’t do it. They get up and go to work and act like decent human beings.” ― Kendra Elliot, Vanished
“He hated nothing worse than people who spoke to hear themselves talk or people who tried to cover up that they were slackers by using an avalanche of words.” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“The point I’m making is that hate never dies,” Ava continued. “It can go dormant and seem to disappear when it’s actually hiding and evolving, passed from generation to generation.” ― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister
“He didn’t seem to understand that a person can function in the space between happy and unhappy. That space offered a level of calm and balance.” ― Kendra Elliot, Alone
“You want the sorrow she creates to disappear. Not necessarily the person.” ― Kendra Elliot, Vanished
“He imagined it was a lot like trying to shoot a moving target in the dark with occasional flashes of sunlight. “When” ― Kendra Elliot, Spiraled
“That shouldn’t have happened. Mercy heard voices upstairs and followed. Two crime scene techs” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“What you need to know is that you’re a strong person and you can do whatever the hell you feel like, as long as you’re not hurting anyone else. If you don’t like the way something makes you feel, then change it.” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“Plus she’d been taught to appreciate what she had. It seemed as if today’s kids focused on things they didn’t have and how to convince their parents to buy them. I” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“Use it up. Wear it out. Make do or do without.” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“He set off down the dirt road, cursing at himself. Being reckless wasn’t his thing. He thought things through before taking action, but for some reason his brain was slightly disconnected from his actions tonight.His mother would call it testosterone poisoning.” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“No one needs a cat . . . until you get one and wonder why you never had one before.” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Silence
“Mercy looked ready to dissolve into a puddle of stressed-out-special-agent goo.” ― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death
“We can’t say racism doesn’t exist because it’s never personally touched us. It’s here and it can be deadly.” ― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister
“How come I was thirty before I learned that my parents were right? About nearly everything?” ― Kendra Elliot, On Her Father's Grave
“You can’t change a person. You can only change yourself.” ― Kendra Elliot, Alone
Kendra Elliot
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Kendra Elliot

An Amazon #1 selling author, Kendra Elliot has sold over 12 Million books and been on the WSJ best seller over a dozen times. She grew up in the lush Pacific Northwest and still lives there with her family and two cats. She's fascinated with forensics, refuse…

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