Kristina Riggle > Quotes

“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)”
― Kristina Riggle

“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)”
― Kristina Riggle

“Love is hard to find and easy to lose, same as anything small and precious.”
― Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World

“You are the innocent in the scenario between you and the teacher. Absolutely. You are not innocent in the lies you told to see him.” “I thought he manipulated me and abused me, therefore I can’t be held responsible.” Dinah retorted, “I thought you were a mature woman and fully in control of all your actions.”
― Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World

“Love isn’t always fireworks and rainbows. Mature love is quieter, but it’s there.”
― Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World

“That’s what no one understood. She was no victim. She was a grown woman trapped in a body too young for anyone to take her seriously.”
― Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World

“Morgan punched her thigh lightly to remember her own careless mistake: the age of consent. She’d researched it online. It was sixteen in Michigan, and she was seventeen. They should have been in the clear; she never intended this. She didn’t know that there was a special legal category for a teacher and student. Didn’t know it would be “criminal sexual conduct III.”
― Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World