Rea Frey > Quotes

“I made constant deals with myself, as though these deals would culminate in some life-changing event: If there are five babies on the plane, it won’t crash. If I just say yes to this client, I’ll get into Forbes. If the light turns green when I count to three, I won’t complain for the rest of the day. If I don’t eat dessert today, I can have Mexican tomorrow.”
― Rea Frey, Not Her Daughter

“The image of him distorts and drifts across the walls, then explodes into stardust. And then he begins again, reborn, repurposed. It is a living, breathing installation of his complete infiniteness. No beginning and no end. In this place, in this moment, he lives forever.”
― Rea Frey, In Every Life: A Novel

“I’d been on edge lately, not sleeping, super wound up. In a few minutes, the caffeine would kick in, and the fog would lift.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.”
― Rea Frey, Because You're Mine

“I wasn’t interested in an affair, but being looked at and seen? Every woman deserved that type of consensual longing.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“That wasn't just some random week to me," he finally says. "It was my whole life, my future. You were my future." His voice cracks, and so does my heart.”
― Rea Frey, In Every Life: A Novel

“That was one thing that could be said in my house: no one hid their emotions. They were big. Anger was big. Joy was big. Fear was big. Because of it, I stayed small.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“If we're meant to find each other again, we will," he whispers in my ear.
My body erupts into goose bumps as he steps back and flings his arms wide.
"I've got all the time in the world." He lifts a hand in a wave, turns, and walks away, just as Liam did hours before.”
― Rea Frey, In Every Life: A Novel

“We miss all kinds of things when we don’t know what we’re looking for.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“I attempted to steady my heartbeat, which flickered beneath my sweater like a tiny light frantically being switched on and off.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“It was the first time in a while that I felt purposeful and free, not constantly in my head, worrying about tomorrow or my place in the world. Instead, all that disappeared, and I lost myself”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“For the first time in my life, I had no one. No one to watch me grow up. No one to love me. No one to love.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“I’ve always been good at keeping secrets—other people’s secrets, friends’ secrets, family secrets, strangers’ secrets. But I’m even better at creating secrets. No one ever guesses them … even if I beg them to try.”
― Rea Frey, Because You're Mine

“There was nothing like staring into the eyes of a family member who still clung to hope and then watching as their face crumpled and their heart broke.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“around”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

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― Rea Frey, In Every Life: A Novel

“but if I’d learned anything over the years, it was that words didn’t matter. Only actions mattered. What you did mattered, not what you said.”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me

“Everyone knows sex with a long-term partner doesn’t set your soul on fire,”
― Rea Frey, Don't Forget Me