Elizabeth Klehfoth > Quotes

“If my investigation into my mother’s past had taught me anything, it was that no one can really understand the whole of a person. In many ways, my mother, my father—the people I was closest to, the people who meant the most to me—were strangers. Beautiful strangers.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“No one can really understand the whole of a person. In many ways...the people I was closest to, the people who meant the most to me--were strangers. Beautiful strangers.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“With everything that had happened with my mother, I realized how important the stories that we tell about one another are. The stories we tell can change the way we see one another, can even change the way we see the world. I wanted to tell those stories; I needed to tell them.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“You're not really doing this, are you?...That thing some girls do, where the guy is horrible and then makes some gesture, and the girl forgets how horrible the guy is, just in time for the guy to do something else horrible.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Grief is like being stranded on a mountain,” the therapist had said. “We all have to find our own way down.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“I’ve always believed that romantic love has two parts,” Florence said. “There’s physical attraction. That can happen at first sight, obviously. But the second part, a real affection, can only be developed over time, after you’ve come to really know someone. I think that anyone who says they fell in love at first sight merely had their initial attraction substantiated later on by a deepening regard for the person as they got to know them.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Home isn’t a physical place. It’s a point in time when you felt loved and protected and safe. It’s a person who made you feel that way. And when that’s gone, it changes everything, you know?”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Here”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Sometimes it seems like love is like God—you get a different answer depending on who you ask”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Most nights”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Your whole life”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Yeah”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“think that anyone who says they fell in love at first sight merely had their initial attraction substantiated later on by a deepening regard for the person as they got to know them.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Death doesn’t make any sense when you’re sixteen. Death doesn’t make any sense when you’re older either. It just becomes a familiar stranger”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“But you and Grace, you'll only ruin each other... Every great tragedy started with love.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“I’m going to go dig up Plath’s unabridged journals,” Stevie said”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Ana found anger to be a very useful emotion. It filled you with fire; it spurred you to action. Rage instilled in a person a sense of power. It was so much better than grief or fear”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“DGAF is today’s YOLO.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Why the tears?” Florence shifted in her seat and took a deep breath. “I suppose it’s because . . . well”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“What in god’s name were you doing in a library?” “I got lost,” Teddy said.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Silence is the true friend that never betrays,”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“She’d learned the hard way: Never turn your back on something bigger than you.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Love is only ever the first act. It doesn’t
last forever. (...) Every great tragedy started with love.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“Fuck,” I said. “Fuck”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

“You and I – we could have built something together," Margot said. "But you and Grace you'll only ruin each other. You'll see. When it's too late to do anything about it, you'll look back at this moment and know that I was right. Every great tragedy started with love.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth

“Social awkwardness—it was a much more effective interrogation technique than torture, and it didn’t break any federal laws.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Home isn’t a physical place. It’s a point in time when you felt loved and protected and safe. It’s a person who made you feel that way. And when that’s gone”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Mrs. Abbott shook her head. “No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel

“Sometimes, the only way out is through,”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, The Lost Heiress: A Novel