Caitlin Mullen > Quotes

“You are capable of extending kindness and empathy to strangers, why not to the woman who raised you?"
Callie kicks her sneaker through the sand. "Because we're hardest on them. Because they have to be perfect.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“He couldn't let go of what he had lost and would spend the rest of his days hoarding the wrong things trying to make up for it.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Please See Us

“Crazy is a blank check men write themselves to deal with women however they want.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“Women get humiliated every day, in small stupid ways and in huge, disastrous ones. It’s not art. It’s the most banal thing in the world.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Please See Us

“The world was always conspiring to make young women vulnerable while labeling it as “fun.” Made it seem like we were in control, like we were making all the choices, and then it was our fault when things went wrong. Us and our short skirts, our makeup, our taste for rum, for liking the things we were told to like, wanting what we were told to want.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Please See Us

“In the Pines you can’t escape the lore of the Jersey Devil. The creature was born in these woods, a mess of a thing: bat’s wings, a goat’s head, forked tail, hooves, and claws.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“But I think . . . I think
the thing is, it is something that she did, but also something that
happened to her. A tragedy she made, and one that she’s a victim of.
Does that make sense? I don’t think anyone feels more pain over this
than she does. She’s not a monster. She was practically a kid herself.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“Susannah Riley?”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“It’s that
time of night when the sun is setting but she can’t make it out other
than in the way the light shifts from behind the trees.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“Not especially pretty, but she always said she liked
Pine Barrens heather because it was hardy and unique to where you
lived. She used to cut the longer branches and arrange it in mason
jars on the kitchen table. Bright and strong, like my girls.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“that a woman was found dead in a field in 1979 in Western Pennsylvania, the cops looked at all the wrong people, but she’s got a lead that is about to blow this”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“Steve Wilkins.”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“Angela Harris. Good guy, she mutters. Violent toward women. Nineteen years old to Sabrina’s seventeen, not much of a difference but old enough that he would have”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather

“and”
― Caitlin Mullen, Please See Us

“Layla Hart—”
― Caitlin Mullen, Heather