Kate O'Donnell > Quotes

“This moment felt significant so I lay there and tried to breathe it in, to suck it down and store it. It felt important. I felt swelled with it.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“I let the night come in and swirl around and bring me lightness and positivity. I let the night suck out the failure and my embarrassment and shame over the same.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“We're sitting there on the platform, not waiting for a train but the possibility of a train. Something to get us from here to there, wherever that might be.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“We were so loud against the sounds of the bush. It was fantastic.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“How people changing in just the smallest measure could turn out to be a lot over time. I was looking forward to seeing who I'd be.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“As I learn more about the past, I feel disbelief about our present. How can we let the lessons of the past go unlearned? Are we doomed to make the same mistakes on a loop?”
― Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours

“Sorry for the inconvenience. We are trying to change the world”
― Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours

“And we stand there.
Singing the cathedral down.”
― Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours

“From a distance the leaves shimmered in the sky and created a mystical eucalyptus haze.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“Apparently that's just what I did: lots of leaving and not speaking”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“We walk around, our feet tripping over history at each step, over centuries of human happiness and misery, and stumbling into possible futures while we're at it.”
― Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours

“People must not have realized how much they meant to me. Like Jen, I felt close to her in spite of the distance I’d created, and I wanted to tell her.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“I am older than I was this morning. I am different. I have cracked open.”
― Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours

“The windows and doors will be boarded up and the plants allowed to creep over the building. Moss will grow over the platform and, for a while, youths will come and spray paint and smash what they can - I like to think that this is their way of mourning its loss.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“There was definitely a part of me that ached to fall in love, but I couldn't help thinking I had a hard little heart.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“And now, after everything that has happened, I feel ready to use my anger. To use my anger for good.”
― Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours

“Both of us let the lie hang in the air.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns