Katie Gutierrez > Quotes

“History is written by those who have power and want to keep it.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“When we’re shocked someone isn’t who we thought they were, it’s usually not because they hid it so well—more like, the closer we are to a person, the less clearly we see them.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“By the time I read about Lore Rivera, my mother had been dead for a dozen years. Dead, but not gone. She was like my shadow, angling dark and long in the right light, inescapable and untouchable.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Mami once told me it’s impossible to get everything from one person. That at best, we get eighty percent. The other twenty, ni modo, we have to find it somewhere else.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“History is written by those who have power and want to keep it. So when you read your textbooks, ask yourself who is telling the story—and what they have to gain by your”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“what is more unnatural—more dangerous—than a woman who claims to have no ties in the world?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“The thing about a spontaneous act is that the consequences are long-lasting.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“That one’s call had been so out of the blue. It was like being hit on the back of the head, waking up to find your purse gone, your car stolen. Things taken from you purely because someone else wanted them.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“She could realize she hasn’t had so much to drink in months and remember her beautiful king-size bed upstairs, a haven of uninterrupted rest. In this moment, Lore’s life forks.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Nothing in either photo suggested a crack in the couple’s intimacy—but then, my own parents had chopped onions and bell peppers side by side for fajita night right up until the very end.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“She doesn’t tell Andres, of course, about Fabian or the cuates, but what she reveals feels so raw, so true, that it eclipses the fundamental untruth of her omissions.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“rewarding them all for the hard work of sleeping, like no one else could pull a soggy box of waffles from the freezer and slide the icy disks into a toaster.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“And somehow women are expected to forget this afterward, how they are the closest thing to God, breaking themselves open to create new life. Motherhood is supposed to be quiet and pretty. But motherhood is not pretty. Motherhood has teeth.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“It always amazed me, how, even with their perpetual whys, the boys just accepted that Fabian was in prison. As if prison were a city like Laredo, a place where people were born and sometimes stayed.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Did the violence provide them with a language for their private suffering?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Wouldn’t it be easier to pay all our bills from the same place? Less stressful? It probably was, for some people. And I wished I were one of them, I did, but the thought of combining our finances made me feel like burying myself alive.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Women have only the potent force of their imagination. And that’s all Andres is to Lore. Despite the phone calls, he is, essentially, a figment. The memory of kissing him as unreal as the idea of making love with him.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“They’re like bombs,” Andres says, with an understanding laugh. “They blow up every familiar thing in your life. But then you look around and realize that somehow things are better this way—that only what matters remains.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“What they’re really talking about, Lore knows, is how much it all must have cost. She joins the conversation, though her ears are with the men, who are essentially having the same discussion.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“When it’s done right, true crime tells us who we are, who we should fear, who we are always in danger of becoming”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“The disappearing act. Heartbroken and humiliated, the women were forced to move in with aging parents or continue working the jobs from which they’d been set to retire. What was taken from them would never be recovered.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“And don’t think I didn’t notice the other photos. You have kids of your own! All this time, I wondered how you were so good with mine, and it’s because you’re a mother. A fucking mother.” He flung my wrists away, and my hands slapped against my legs. “What kind of mother does this to her children?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Lore smiled. “The kind who reads about people’s tragedies and wonders how she can use them for herself. But, mija, I understand. Really. And I want you to get your book deal. You deserve it.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Lore can’t help but think of Fabian, who would see philosophy as self-indulgent and unnecessary. They live in a world of things, after all. A world of iron and heat, solid and understandable. And yet, look at the recession: What is money if not an idea? An idea with the power to liberate or enslave.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Not one but two incels emerged from their semen-scented basements to say this was why women should be kept as sex slaves—it was the only way innocent men could protect themselves.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Marta is her best friend and Sergio is Fabian’s. Their social lives revolve around children’s birthdays and Sunday lunches at Mami and Papi’s house. But she’s supposed to be a single thirty-three-year-old, and what single thirty-three-year-old doesn’t have friends?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“This is a family.” Mateo leaned forward, an urgency to the curve of his body. “My family. How would you feel if strangers banged down your door, demanding to hear about the worst time in your life, then published it for the world to see?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Or had she, with her maternal caring, conned me into a sense of loyalty to her, instead of to the truth or the story or even to justice?”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“It’s a gut punch, the subject left like all those women I’d read about at the start of this, who’d fallen for men shuffling wives like cards. The journalist like a con man, there for one reason: the story.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know

“Banking is business, yes, but business is personal, always. You open accounts with relationships, not dollars, which is not something the big U.S. banks understand.”
― Katie Gutierrez, More Than You'll Ever Know