Kimberly McCreight > Quotes

“Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Everyone has beacons. Lights that guide them home.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“...[T]here's a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser on urbandictionary.com.

Don't Be a Statistic.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“And in the end, wasn’t that the key to marriage? Learning to pretend that a few unspoiled things could make up for all the broken ones.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“That’s the hardest part about marriage, isn’t it?” Zach went on. “Somebody else’s problems become your own. It doesn’t always feel fair.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“Not everything about where you're headed...has to be about where you've been.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“I’d been so foolish to think love could change the essential nature of anything.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“It’s so simple at the beginning. You meet someone gorgeous and smart and funny. Somebody who’s better than you—you both know it, at least on some level. You fall in love with them. But you fall even more in love with their idea of you. You feel lucky. Because you are lucky. Then time passes. You both change too much. You stay too much the same. The truth worms its way out, and the horizon grows dark. Eventually all you’re left with is somebody who sees you for who you really are. And sooner or later, they hold up a mirror and you’re forced to see for yourself.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“Let go or be dragged.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia’s mother—the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Sometimes, it feels like he’s trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn’t the same thing as understanding them.”
― Kimberly McCreight, The Outliers

“One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of ridiculous.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Forgiveness is a side effect of love”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous. Of course, it was also the exact same thing that eventually ended up driving the boys away. After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) E. E. Cummings”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I’d been intoxicated by his world of grays.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“It was sad that she couldn't remember more. That was the problem with closing off so much of her past - sometimes the good memories went with the bad.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“I don't think you can pretend your way through anything. Closing your eyes won't stop the bad things from finding you.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage

“Unlike a lot of couples, we didn’t pretend to be perfect. We were honest about our flaws, and truthful was so much better than perfect.”
― Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage