Katie Sise > Quotes

“Who could ever manage a man’s feelings and raise children at the same time?”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“Wasn’t that what mothers were there for? You could rail against them, you could blame them, and you could hate them, but you still needed their love the way you needed water.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“the inches between them felt like a physical presence, like something Priya could wrap her hands around and squeeze the life out of.”
― Katie Sise, Open House

“He was always my other half, my twin flame,”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“We’re all walking around with these big brains that can misfire and split and repress and obsess or hurtle into insanity at any second.”
― Katie Sise, The Break

“You see things so black and white, but there’s gray everywhere, Cora,”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“The doctors at the hospital always emphasized how important it was to be present with patients, to try to read everything that appeared on their faces, not just in what they said.”
― Katie Sise, Open House

“She even found herself wanting to say mean things, and she purposely tried never to do that. It was unbecoming for a grown woman to behave like a cruel Queen Bee.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“the”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“How much of where we are determines who we are?”
― Katie Sise, The Break

“People stop doing that, don’t they? Even lovers stop staring into each other’s eyes as the years pass.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“You had to keep your mouth shut when you were with a patient; they couldn’t tell you what you needed to know if you were blathering on with advice and medical knowledge”
― Katie Sise, Open House

“People don’t blame people because there’s a point. It’s just something they feel.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“Don’t use what you know how to do to hurt people.
Because once you know this stuff, you have responsibility.”
― Katie Sise, The Boyfriend App

“They always had sex, no matter how tired they were, because they were young and in love, but also because sex was a way to turn off their brains and use their bodies.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“with”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“You have to get so close to objects and people to figure out how real they are.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“As a sixteen-year-old, Georgia ruled the house with harsh demands and an air of self-involvement so thick you felt like you were entering an atmosphere where you might not be able to find your own oxygen.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“You never know what someone else needs in a moment, and if you can give someone a second of kindness, then why wouldn’t you?”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“outside New York City. We Were”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“Mom-friends: because they weren’t purely friends, except for Jade, of course. They were women Cora wouldn’t have befriended if their children weren’t in each other’s orbits, and Sarah understood perfectly. She used to have plenty of mom-friends.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“that what mothers were there for? You could rail against them, you could blame them, and you could hate them, but you still needed their love the way you needed water.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“Love is love in all its deadly forms, and we all want it like something primal.”
― Katie Sise, The Break

“You worry too much,” he says, flipping a page, his fingers already stained with newsprint. “Says every husband whose wife has children,” I say.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“Thank you to Liz Davis, counselor advocate at Women’s Support Services in Sharon, Connecticut, who patiently answered my questions about sexual violence and about the varied nature of violence within relationships and marriages. She is reachable to any victim of violence at 860-634-1900.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“After Maggie died, I started sleeping with him, and at first it wasn’t meaningful, it was just a trick to try to forget about her and make everything hurt less, but then it all got so incredibly convoluted.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers

“Traumas from our childhood hold power over our present,” Sylvie says. “Especially those for which we never received any professional help. The big ones like death and abuse, but so many others, even things that as adults we might perceive as small can be traumatic for a child.”
― Katie Sise, The Break

“I don’t care, and if I get even a little close to caring about what everyone thinks, I think about my mom, and the way she held her head high and marched us through town, even with her demons.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“There are some things in my past I need clarity on, real answers. And then there are other things I’d rather leave buried in cavernous graves.”
― Katie Sise, The Vacation Rental

“The power of her body to make men feel a certain way made her high, but it was nearly canceled out by an intense vulnerability that descended moments later.”
― Katie Sise, We Were Mothers