“You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.”
―
Sarah Pekkanen,
The Opposite of Me
“Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt...” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“How do you know if you can really trust someone?" I finally ask.Noah raises his eyebrows and takes a sip of his drink.Then he looks into my eyes and the expression in his is so earnest I feel like he's answering from a deeply personal place."If you need to ask that question, then you probably already know the answer," he says.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, These Girls
“But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, The Best of Us
“One of them is lying. But who?” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“Self-preservation is a powerful motivator, more reliably so than money or empathy or love.” ― Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“Sometimes silence is more effective tool to loosen information than a direct question; members of the law enforcement community often employ this tactic when a suspect is in custody.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“Grief is a shape-shifter, it defies logic, sneaking up on you when you least expect it and leaving you empty-handed and hollow when you go searching for it.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
“The words just sprang into my mind. Maybe I'd never stopped loving Michael, but now it felt different. I loved him despite the injuries we'd inflicted on one another, because of the bad times as well as the good ones..... Our love was richer and bumpier and more complex than it had ever been before.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“Project Runway, chocolate and margaritas and suddenly all is right with the world” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“A friend once told me that if you have to ask if you can trust someone, you already know the answer.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
“Time is a chameleon. It's ever changing, cannily adapting to circumstances. It stretches out some tiny moments for an eternity. Then it shifts course and swallows up whole days, years even, as if they never existed. It's as slippery and elusive as water running through the cracks in a tightly cupped hand.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
“And sometimes the people who seem the most accomplished and together are the ones you can hurt you the most.” ― Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“Grief isn’t linear, it isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it. It grabs you when you least expect it and it digs in its nails until you succumb.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
“It is easy to judge other people's choices. It is far more complex when the choices are your own.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel of that glorious, curving belly under the palm of her hand-but she could still be a mother. That was the important thing.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Catching Air
“Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt...” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“How do you know if you can really trust someone?" I finally ask.Noah raises his eyebrows and takes a sip of his drink.Then he looks into my eyes and the expression in his is so earnest I feel like he's answering from a deeply personal place."If you need to ask that question, then you probably already know the answer," he says.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, These Girls
“But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, The Best of Us
“One of them is lying. But who?” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“Self-preservation is a powerful motivator, more reliably so than money or empathy or love.” ― Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“Sometimes silence is more effective tool to loosen information than a direct question; members of the law enforcement community often employ this tactic when a suspect is in custody.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“Grief is a shape-shifter, it defies logic, sneaking up on you when you least expect it and leaving you empty-handed and hollow when you go searching for it.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
“The words just sprang into my mind. Maybe I'd never stopped loving Michael, but now it felt different. I loved him despite the injuries we'd inflicted on one another, because of the bad times as well as the good ones..... Our love was richer and bumpier and more complex than it had ever been before.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“Project Runway, chocolate and margaritas and suddenly all is right with the world” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping a Beat
“A friend once told me that if you have to ask if you can trust someone, you already know the answer.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
“Time is a chameleon. It's ever changing, cannily adapting to circumstances. It stretches out some tiny moments for an eternity. Then it shifts course and swallows up whole days, years even, as if they never existed. It's as slippery and elusive as water running through the cracks in a tightly cupped hand.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
“And sometimes the people who seem the most accomplished and together are the ones you can hurt you the most.” ― Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl
“Grief isn’t linear, it isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it. It grabs you when you least expect it and it digs in its nails until you succumb.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
“It is easy to judge other people's choices. It is far more complex when the choices are your own.” ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel of that glorious, curving belly under the palm of her hand-but she could still be a mother. That was the important thing.” ― Sarah Pekkanen, Catching Air
