“Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall”
―
Kimberly McCreight,
Reconstructing Amelia
“It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Everyone has beacons. Lights that guide them home.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“...[T]here's a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her
“But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com.Don't Be a Statistic.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Not everything about where you're headed...has to be about where you've been.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“That’s the hardest part about marriage, isn’t it?” Zach went on. “Somebody else’s problems become your own. It doesn’t always feel fair.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“And in the end, wasn’t that the key to marriage? Learning to pretend that a few unspoiled things could make up for all the broken ones.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“I’d been so foolish to think love could change the essential nature of anything.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“Let go or be dragged.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her
“Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Everyone has beacons. Lights that guide them home.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“...[T]here's a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her
“But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com.Don't Be a Statistic.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“Not everything about where you're headed...has to be about where you've been.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
“That’s the hardest part about marriage, isn’t it?” Zach went on. “Somebody else’s problems become your own. It doesn’t always feel fair.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“And in the end, wasn’t that the key to marriage? Learning to pretend that a few unspoiled things could make up for all the broken ones.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“I’d been so foolish to think love could change the essential nature of anything.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“Let go or be dragged.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her
“Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush.” ― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
“But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.” ― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia
