Julie Clark > Quotes

“If we don't tell our own stories, we'll never take control of the narrative.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“In a world crowded with noise and selfishness, you are a brilliant flash of kindness.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“People disappear every day. The man standing in line at Starbucks, buying his last cup of coffee before he gets in his car and drives into a new life, leaving behind family who will always wonder what happened. Or the woman sitting in the lat row of a Greyhound bus, staring out the window as the wind blows strands of hair across her face, wiping away a history to heavy to carry. You might be shoulder to shoulder with someone living their last moments as themselves and never know it.”
― Julie Clark , The Last Flight

“Once you lie about your past, you wall yourself off from the present.”
― Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter

“Instinct is a funny thing, a whisper of trouble that we can never quite name, never quite define, that allows us to locate danger. Women are taught from a young age to ignore theirs.”
― Julie Clark, The Lies I Tell: A Novel

“Long ago, when she was a girl in the group home, Eva discovered that big feelings made most people uncomfortable, and she learned how to use anger or sadness to turn up the pressure, to maneuver people into a position where their only desire was to make the emotion go away. To stop the tears. To fix the fear. To placate the anger.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“The difference between justice and revenge comes down to who's telling the story.”
― Julie Clark, The Lies I Tell: A Novel

“[Eva James] "I'm not very good at forgiveness."
Liz nodded. "Not many people are. But what I've learned in life is that in order for true forgiveness to occur, something has to die first, Your expectations, or your circumstances. Maybe your heart. And that can be painful. But it's also incredibly liberating.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“In this world, money and power are equivalent to immunity.”
― Julie Clark

“The difference between justice and revenge comes down to who’s telling the story”
― Julie Clark

“The death of any dream deserves to be mourned, all its intricate facets touched one last time.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“two women working together are a force to be reckoned with”
― Julie Clark

“You can’t erase the past by not thinking about it.”
― Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter

“But the truth is, no matter what you choose, you’ll have a ghost trailing after you for the rest of your life.”
― Julie Clark, The Heart of a Mother

“I’m beginning to realize that once you lie about your past”
― Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter

“Eva felt a sharp stab of regret, surprising her after so many years believing she'd made peace with how things turned out. That was the funny thing about regret. It lived inside of you, shrinking down until you could almost believe it had vanished, only to have it spring up, fully formed, called forward by people who meant you no harm. - Julie Clark, The Last Flight”
― Julie Clark

“Besides, when you can’t hear the words people use to distract you, you focus on what they’re doing instead. The truth lives in people’s actions, their unguarded moments, not in the lies they tell.”
― Julie Clark

“There’s a reason historians rely so heavily on primary sources. Because human memory is flawed.”
― Julie Clark

“Identity is a strange thing. Are we who we say we are, or do we become the person others see? Do they define us by what we choose to show them, or what they see despite our best attempts to conceal it? - The Last Flight, Julie Clark”
― Julie Clark

“Her mind began connecting the dots she hadn’t even known were there, passing over the question of he’d found her house to it’s inevitable answer- there must be someone ese following her.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“I hope I’ve become someone who doesn’t get angry when others are just trying to get by. I hope I can be the kind of person who looks toward forgiveness first.”
― Julie Clark

“You only get one life - how do you ant to live it?”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight