Kendra Elliot > Quotes

“Who would have thought that sharing a cup of coffee in the morning would be one of the highlights of his day?”
― Kendra Elliot, Bridged

“Sometimes a clean break with a fresh start is the healthiest way to handle the changes in life. People step up to the task when they are faced with challenges.”
― Kendra Elliot, Alone

“Memory is inherently unreliable. With time, it degrades. With trauma, it fragments. In isolation, it festers.”
― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister

“Everybody wishes they could escape from their shitty life sometimes, but they don’t do it. They get up and go to work and act like decent human beings.”
― Kendra Elliot, Vanished

“Use it up. Wear it out. Make do or do without.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“The point I’m making is that hate never dies,” Ava continued. “It can go dormant and seem to disappear when it’s actually hiding and evolving, passed from generation to generation.”
― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister

“I’m fine.” The biggest lie ever uttered by every woman.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Fate

“He hated nothing worse than people who spoke to hear themselves talk or people who tried to cover up that they were slackers by using an avalanche of words.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“He didn’t seem to understand that a person can function in the space between happy and unhappy. That space offered a level of calm and balance.”
― Kendra Elliot, Alone

“You want the sorrow she creates to disappear. Not necessarily the person.”
― Kendra Elliot, Vanished

“You can’t change a person. You can only change yourself.”
― Kendra Elliot, Alone

“No one needs a cat . . . until you get one and wonder why you never had one before.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Silence

“What you need to know is that you’re a strong person and you can do whatever the hell you feel like, as long as you’re not hurting anyone else. If you don’t like the way something makes you feel, then change it.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“Mercy looked ready to dissolve into a puddle of stressed-out-special-agent goo.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“That shouldn’t have happened. Mercy heard voices upstairs and followed. Two crime scene techs”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“They’d skirted around her family history a few times. Her past was like a partially healed scar. It’d been ripped open too many times, and she’d discovered the only way to let it mend was to completely avoid it.”
― Kendra Elliot, Spiraled

“He set off down the dirt road, cursing at himself. Being reckless wasn’t his thing. He thought things through before taking action, but for some reason his brain was slightly disconnected from his actions tonight.
His mother would call it testosterone poisoning.”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“Have you ever loved someone, and the existence of that emotion was completely out of your control? Someone who knows you inside and out? Someone who is closer to you than anyone else in the world? That deep-down soul connection where you physically feel them moving about in the world?”
― Kendra Elliot, Vanished

“There was a subtle magic between them he hadn’t experienced with another woman, which made him want to rush home to be with her in the evenings.”
― Kendra Elliot, Bridged

“Small Town Rule #2: Reputations are made in five seconds and stick for twenty years. Or more. “I”
― Kendra Elliot, On Her Father's Grave

“He imagined it was a lot like trying to shoot a moving target in the dark with occasional flashes of sunlight. “When”
― Kendra Elliot, Spiraled

“Plus she’d been taught to appreciate what she had. It seemed as if today’s kids focused on things they didn’t have and how to convince their parents to buy them. I”
― Kendra Elliot, A Merciful Death

“We can’t say racism doesn’t exist because it’s never personally touched us. It’s here and it can be deadly.”
― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister

“Ray looked like a linebacker sitting in a skeletal chair. Mason had tried the same movement in front of a mirror at home and could never replicate the results.”
― Kendra Elliot, Spiraled

“Truth always sounds like lies to a sinner.”
― Kendra Elliot, Vanished

“How come I was thirty before I learned that my parents were right? About nearly everything?”
― Kendra Elliot, On Her Father's Grave

“Only in Portland was it unforgivable not to recycle efficiently.”
― Kendra Elliot, Hidden

“He gave her a venti-size grin.”
― Kendra Elliot, Bridged

“Just because you’ve never experienced it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist,”
― Kendra Elliot, The Last Sister

“How did I find this man? He understood every fiber of her. Her needs, her insecurities, and her fears. And easily balanced them with love and patience.”
― Kendra Elliot, The Silence