Kate Karyus Quinn > Quotes

“Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, Another Little Piece

“Everyone falls eventually,” Piper told me. “You think it’ll hurt. But it’s falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it’s kind of fun.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“The thing is, secrets are awful in lots of ways, but they almost never lie.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“I’m sorry,” I said, although by this point the words felt like a cheap shirt that has lost its shape after too many washings.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, Another Little Piece

“I found a quote from some guy that summed up the lucky thing pretty perfectly for me. It went like this: “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“I want certainties, not endless indefinites.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“Since you've been gone, Piper, I've become as bad with the sighing as Mom. Sometimes it's the part of a sob that I jsut can't hold back. Sometimes the sigh's more like blowing out birthday candles to make a wish. And sometimes I do it hoping that it'll make you appear—even for just one instant—to laugh at me and tell me to stop.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“Sometimes you make bad choices to keep yourself from making other, even worse ones. Or at least that’s what I tell myself.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“One after another, like dominoes set up and knocked back down, they climbed on top of the bridge railing, balanced, and jumped.
No, they didn’t jump. Jump implies an understanding of gravity and a knowledge that up is only temporary. With spring-loaded legs and arms outstretched like Superman, those young men and women didn’t jump. They launched.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, Down with the Shine

“Remember me. But do it the right way. Remember it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I’d rather be forgotten than remembered the wrong way.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“People’s thoughts tend to trail behind them, a stream of consciousness flowing like a river. Or a drippy faucet. It depends on the person.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“Your words sounded like the worst kind of secret, the story that I wished wasn’t true.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“It’s better not to think of those things. Not to remember who we’d been, or worse- who we’ve become.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn

“handgun. I accidentally”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, Grime and Punishment

“I can’t forget you, Piper. But sometimes, I can’t really remember you either.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“It’s better not to think of those things. Not to remember who ed been, or worse- who we’ve become.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“Is it worth having something good when it’s just gonna be taken away? When it’s only temporary and later you’re left wondering if you imagined it anyway?”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“Secrets are stupid things. They hate being contained and like nothing better than to be told everywhere and to everyone, even though this is what kills them, downgrading them to plain old common knowledge.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“It’s better not to think of those things. Not to remember who we’d been-or worse, who we’ve become.”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, (Don't You) Forget About Me

“That's what everyone thinks.

Except they don't."

(pp. 161)”
― Kate Karyus Quinn, Not Hungry