Minka Kent > Quotes

“We’re not meant to be best friends with every person who crosses our paths.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“People get too comfortable living with their own assumptions. I’m convinced most of us prefer to shun the truth for reasons of our own.”
― Minka Kent, When I Was You

“It never fails to amaze me all the things people do when they think no one’s watching, the things they think they can get away with.”
― Minka Kent, When I Was You

“Sometimes we die a little so we can be reborn, stronger than we were before.”
― Minka Kent, The Perfect Roommate

“If I were a super hero, social awkwardness would be my power. My entire life, I’ve struggled to get out of my head, constantly overanalyzing every little word or movement or shift of a gaze. I’ve learned it’s easier to sit back and shut up. I find I don’t make as much of a fool out of myself that way. Quietude has become the law of my land, with silence being my official language.”
― Minka Kent, The Perfect Roommate

“Fear does that to you, though. It makes you question what you want and what you think you want.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Everyone’s too self-centered and ego-driven. And lazy. God, are we lazy as a society. It’s disgusting really. We’re fed information, we don’t question it, and we allow it to shape our thoughts, our wants, our desires . . . our life decisions. And then we wonder why we’re so fucking miserable all the time.”
― Minka Kent, The Memory Watcher

“Judging people is easy to do when you don’t have the full story.”
― Minka Kent, People Like Them

“If my mother were here, she’d waste no time reminding me, “That’s what you get for marrying your first boyfriend. Intelligent women never marry for love . . .”
― Minka Kent, People Like Them

“breathes me in and cups my face, and just like that, he’s mine again. His attention belongs to me. His body belongs to me. I possess him and he possesses me. And I’m never letting go . . .”
― Minka Kent, The Memory Watcher

“And if there’s anything I’ve learned in my thirty-six years, it’s that desperate people are incapable of making good decisions.”
― Minka Kent, The Memory Watcher

“it’ll all be okay. And if it isn’t okay, it isn’t the end.”
― Minka Kent, When I Was You

“I exist wholly in this space he has created, this space where I’m the most wonderful thing he’s ever loved, and he’s the only man I ever want to be with.”
― Minka Kent, The Memory Watcher

“a skilled negotiator in the business sector always told me, “When in doubt, say nothing. The one who speaks first, loses.”
― Minka Kent, The Silent Woman

“That the people who aren’t meant to stay in your life inevitably fade into the background sooner or later, and the ones who are meant to be there will find a way to you one way or another.”
― Minka Kent, Gone Again

“Brant and the woman are still lost in their little conversation, though at this point they might as well be lost in their own little world.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“and people are more likely to help you if they know you. That’s just basic human nature. Not everyone is as altruistic as some of us assume.”
― Minka Kent, People Like Them

“Last time I saw him was during Christmas break, when I came home to find he’d turned my bedroom into his “computer room” where he could keep the “rig” my mom bought him. Funny how she couldn’t help me out when my Honda needed new tires, but she could scrounge up enough nickels to buy him a two-thousand-dollar gaming system so he could play League of Legends all hours of the night with his smelly, overweight Doberman snoring at his feet.”
― Minka Kent, The Perfect Roommate

“Listen to silence. It has so much to say.”
― Minka Kent, The Silent Woman

“This is what’s wrong with our society. We treat tragedies like entertainment, the American public priding ourselves on being armchair detectives trying to solve these crimes, but the second the sensationalism dies down and the case grows cold, we move on to the next exciting thing. And the media. That’s another thing. They need headlines that sell. Stories that stir up emotions and garner web traffic and ad clicks.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“Monsters are real. They’re real, and they’re capable of doing the unspeakable. And they don’t hide under beds or in closets—they hide in plain sight. You just don’t always notice them.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“No one’s interested in the truth. Most of us just think we are.”
― Minka Kent, When I Was You

“Hottest starving artist I’d ever laid eyes on . . . and then you just had to walk in and steal him from me.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“We’re not meant to be best friends with every person who crosses our paths. Not everyone has our best interests at heart.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“My subconscious is a cruel, cowardly bitch that shows herself only when I’m unable to fight back, unable to shut her off. I get it.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“I’ve never understood why people are so fascinated with the way others live.”
― Minka Kent, People Like Them

“And this is why I hate the grocery store: it’s a fucking zoo with real, live human animals.”
― Minka Kent, The Memory Watcher

“I lose myself between the pages of a book where nothing is truly as it seems and no one is who they claim to be. Thank goodness it’s fiction.”
― Minka Kent, The Stillwater Girls

“Oh, stop.” Lauren swipes at Tessa’s shoulder and they laugh. “You worked there maybe three months.” She turns to me. “Then she met Rich, her sugar daddy.” Tessa’s jaw hangs and she faces me. “She’s messing with you. I don’t have a sugar daddy.”
― Minka Kent, The Perfect Roommate

“There’s an unspoken understanding I have with him that I’ve never had with anyone else, and while our friendship might be young and born of convenience, in a lot of ways I feel as though I’ve known him my entire life.”
― Minka Kent, When I Was You