Kiersten Modglin > Quotes

“For better or worse. Because your only choice now is to kill me yourself or stay with me forever. I own your secret now, Peter. I own you.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“People like to pretend they have no control over the way their life turns out, but the truth is that they just refuse to deal with the hard stuff because it’s too painful and messy.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“I don’t believe we’re defined by our worst moments, no matter how dark they are. We’re defined by what we do after our worst moments.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Dinner Guests

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

“I’m struck by how odd it is. Like hemlock, the plant, sometimes things aren’t what they appear. Sometimes, something that looks so safe, so beautiful even, can be what puts you in the most danger.”
― Kiersten Modglin, Hemlock

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

“There are just these periods where things feel safe and calm, and then, long before we’re ready, everything’s torn apart and we call it change.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Amendment

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

“The rule of threes I knew: we could survive three minutes without oxygen, three hours without shelter from harsh weather, three days without water, three weeks without food.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Missing

“People like to pretend they have no control over the way their life turns out, but the truth is that they just refuse to deal with the hard stuff because it’s too painful and messy. You know what’s even more painful and sticky? Prolonging bad situations for your own comfort. No one can solve your problems for you, Peter. No one wants to.” She sighed, her eyes filling with sorrow. “Just…figure it out.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“Everyone cares about fitting in, that’s the truth of it. Even the most self-assured person you know. The pretty. The popular. The loners. The ones who forge their own path. The ones who swear they don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks.”
― Kiersten Modglin, Widow Falls

“Silence of the good is the weapon of the wicked.”
― Kiersten Modglin, Bitter House

“Outside the window, it’s mostly dark, though the moon is illuminating the woods in a slightly eerie, almost hypnotic way. I picture myself walking outside, slipping into the darkness, and disappearing once and for all.”
― Kiersten Modglin, A Quiet Retreat

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

“I’d heard before that grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Kiersten Modglin, My Husband's Secret

“Sorry, my mom was telling me about her book club again. It’s very scandalous there.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

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

“The same way everyone’s happy in the middle of their life. I had everything I wanted, but somehow it all felt a bit lackluster. A dream is its shiniest when it’s still inside your head.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“Glennon was always looking for the next new thing, be it a diet, activity, or career.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“Everything could’ve gone so much differently, if only I’d been a better man.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

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― Kiersten Modglin, Just Married

“It gives me a funny feeling deep in my gut. Something I can’t explain. Like when I know something bad is going to happen before it does.”
― Kiersten Modglin, Wilde Women

“You can’t trick your heart. You can’t convince it or reason with it or bribe it.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“It wasn’t easy to unbury yourself from debt when life was always at the top of the grave, shoveling new dirt on top of you.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Roommate

“There were days when they were young when I begged for a minute of peace, a minute to breathe, or shower, or think…but this was worse. Back then, I had no idea how much peace I’d have one day all too soon.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Arrangement

“My entire world had gone up in flames, and I was still holding the match.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“Normal doesn’t exist and it never has. There are just these periods where things feel safe and calm, and then, long before we’re ready, everything’s torn apart and we call it change.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Amendment

“Sometimes I like to think the people who die go on living without really knowing they’ve died. Isn’t that a peaceful thought? That those we’ve lost are just out there, living and loving, happy and at peace. That they don’t know anything happened to them. That they exist in a reality that is exactly what they hoped for.”
― Kiersten Modglin, Hemlock

“That’s the burden parents face, isn’t it? When we’re with them, we take it all for granted. We wish for time away. We wish for a moment of peace. Then, as soon as we’re away, supposed to be enjoying our peace, we wish to be right in the middle of it all again. Childhood is both very long and very short and, as parents, there’s nothing we’re more aware of than that.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Reunion

“In death, everyone becomes a hero. Otherworldly. The dead become something of myths and legends, even when everyone knows the truth.”
― Kiersten Modglin, The Stranger