Natalie D. Richards > Quotes

“My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows”
― Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

“Malum Non Vide: See No Evil”
― Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

“For every moment she's held together, there's another where she's fallen to pieces.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“Because sometimes it is easier to force strength for others than to allow ourselves to feel weak and hurt”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“Some very twisted part of me wants him to be jealous. I want him to want me. Because some part of me clearly wants him.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Six Months Later

“We're both tainted water, but Theo's bubbles to the surface like an oil spill. Mine is invisible. Arsenic hiding in plain sight.”
― Natalie D. Richards, We All Fall Down

“One girl seems to be falling to pieces. And the other has the whole world held tightly in her fist.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“I think that’s what grief does. It reminds us that we are small. That we are not in control.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“Can you go to the darkest imaginable places with a person and still walk with them in the light?”
― Natalie D. Richards, We All Fall Down

“I don’t want to lie about that, especially not when it comes to you.” I feel my face scrunching up. “What does that even mean, when it comes to me?”
― Natalie D. Richards, Four Found Dead

“My phone buzzes and I fish it from my pocket, expecting Tacey or maybe my parents checking in to make sure I’m okay. But it’s an unfamiliar number.
Do you blame yourself?
I read the words once. Twice. I see Stella’s locker door swinging open and I hear a train whistle, but neither are happening. It’s all in my head. I force myself to take a breath and head outside. This text is a wrong number. It’s not for me, and it’s definitely not about Stella.
And then another message.
Do you wish you’d done something? What if you still could?
I text back quickly.
I think you have the wrong number.
I don’t have the wrong number, Piper.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

“He doesn't mean to do a lot of things to me, but he does them all the same.”
― Natalie D. Richards, My Secret to Tell

“There's a name for the look he's wearing. I'd call it jealous as hell.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Six Months Later

“...a symphony of screaming that cuts my soul to pieces.”
― Natalie D. Richards, One Was Lost

“You're not looking for a ghost with a chip on his shoulder," he says. "Your looking for fingernail scratches on the walls of a gas chamber.”
― Natalie D. Richards, We All Fall Down

“Grief is big,” Mom says. “And this is big. These things turn your world inside out. They change us. But only for a while.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“A dozen snowflakes hit the road and all common sense pours directly out of drivers’ brains. Half of the people drive fifteen miles an hour and the other half weave in and out of lanes doing seventy-five.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“Many people (read: parents) are less likely to pop in on you if you’ve got a radio on.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Six Months Later

“It feels perfect, all of it, and that's how I know it's wrong.”
― Natalie D. Richards, One Was Lost

“I’m fine,” I say. I learned after Phoebe that if you say it enough, people believe you. Say it even more, and you’ll believe it yourself.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“What’s more wholesome and trustworthy than Amtrak?”
― Natalie D. Richards, Six Months Later

“He blurs my world.”
― Natalie D. Richards, One Was Lost

“Yeah, Jo. To you. Two years and you really haven’t figured me out?” His honesty is like nothing I’ve ever seen. He doesn’t look away and laugh it off—he lays the words bare and holds my gaze.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Four Found Dead

“Sometimes it is easier to force strength for others than to allow ourselves to feel weak and hurt.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“I love him so much in this second that it physically hurts. Because I don't know what to do, but he still believes in me.”
― Natalie D. Richards, My Secret to Tell

“It’s like losing one of my lungs, she once told me. I don’t think I’ll ever breathe right again.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“He shrugs. “Love doesn’t make us do stupid shit, Cleo. Fear does that.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Seven Dirty Secrets

“It's too late to pretend I'm the good girl now - good girls don't get called to the police station.”
― Natalie D. Richards, My Secret to Tell

“Maybe there’s a book in here that will tell me what to do when all the smart choices feel wrong.”
― Natalie D. Richards, What You Hide

“I guess the past is always with me, but that's not where I am. It's where I was.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Seven Dirty Secrets