Kit Frick > Quotes

“But there are some secrets—my secrets—that Windermere will hold forever, trapped beneath the ash like spilled blood.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“In the dream, the height doesn't scare me at all. My fingers dance across the top of the railing like it's a set of piano keys.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“It was an accident, but... I killed Zoe Spanos.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years. Someone called the girl’s mother, but not until after Anna places herself at the scene where the body was found.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“I suppose all lives have such pivotal moments, paths diverging, cracking in two─though the finality of the split registers only when we take stock of the universe we now inhabit, surrender to the swift death of the other.”
― Kit Frick, The Split

“I’m looking down on the estate from above, and then I’m on the balcony, sitting all the way at the edge, legs pressed through the wooden rails and dangling down, down in the night. In
the dream, the height doesn’t scare me at all. My fingers dance across the top of the railing like it’s a set of piano keys.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“Maybe it was only grief, after all, bubbling to the surface in all its ugly trappings—grief like a gaping wound for a daughter who is gone and likely not coming home again.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“Martina Green: Today is Tuesday, February eleventh, and Zoe Spanos has been missing for six weeks to the day. Last Friday, the Herron Mills Village PD declared Zoe a runaway, and that’s why I’m here, talking to you. Because if you know Zoe, you know she didn’t run away.

Zoe Spanos is missing. And we’re missing Zoe”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“Aster Spanos: Maybe she has a whole new life, somewhere amazing. Like, Buenos Aires or Monte Carlo. Don’t get me wrong, I’d give her hell for doing this to us if she ever comes home. But consider the alternatives. If she didn’t run away...”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“In that moment, his expression changes, geniality sliding away into something between awe and dread.
“Zoe?” he splutters.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“But I can’t go back, only forward, one decision spiraling into a million others, into a life I never could have planned, and I can’t unmake. All I can do is live with my mistakes, accept the reality I’ve created, and keep going, buoyed by the hope of becoming the kind of person who makes better choices than my past self ever could.”
― Kit Frick, The Split

“In the dream, the height doesn't scare me at all. My fingers dance across the top of the railing like it's a set of piano keys”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“You told me the truth wouldn’t shed any light on what happened in the car that day. But that’s a lie. If you or Danny had told the police the truth about where Momma was taking us, it would have ruled out their murder-suicide theory. Don’t you understand how much that would have meant to the rest of us?”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“You fucked this up, Brit. You’re too close to this, and you let that get in the way.” “You bitch.” Brit’s words are like ice.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“People love to glorify the truth above all else, as if its very existence blots out every other factor, but sometimes the truth only causes pain. Sometimes, secrets are meant to stay buried.”
― Kit Frick, The Reunion

“Second, the decision to expose Aymée’s collateral was all Brit. She should be the last person tearing another girl down over a relationship with an older guy, but Brit’s vengeful streak won out over any sense of sisterhood or sympathy.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Prince—young, handsome, idealistic—meets princess—beautiful, rich, going places. For two years of high school, they are together. Then the prince goes to study agriculture at Cornell and the princess ascends her ivy tower at Yale. For three more years, they defy the odds. They stay together. Love wins.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“If our names sound like they were plucked from a fairy tale, it’s because they were. Momma wanted, above all things, to live in a fairy tale.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“I knew,” my aunt says softly. “Not the whole time. But the year before she died, your mother told me.” She glances at her wife. “I made the decision not to burden Teya with this.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Six years later, he lives here, or— he followed me. Did he come to finish what he started? Does he remember me? Am I in danger?”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Being new at Tipton is like picking up a book and starting to read somewhere in the middle. For everyone around me, the story already has a beginning and rising action and well-rounded characters. I’m just lost.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Story goes, Adam Davenport was a total daddy’s boy. He was this uber-privileged asshole who no one really liked but lots of people sucked up to anyway. People just can’t stay away from wealth and power.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“That wasn’t your kind of fairy story. You wanted the dazzling ending, fireworks in the sky, the happily ever after.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“This is precisely why Haunt and Rail is essential,” Lucas says. “If we rely on the administration to do the right thing, we get burned. Nothing gets done.” He looks directly at me, and I hold his gaze. Our conversation from the weekend is still fresh in my mind.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“For a time, the princess puts on a happy face. She plans fantastical adventures for her daughters, spending the king and queen’s money on parties and trips and riches that make the bartender frown. But he surrenders. He wants the princess to be happy.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Momma’s death has been eating away at her, she has never once shown me. There is something very dark about that.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“I used to be thankful she was too out of it to care when the school complained about my spotty attendance record. When the cops brought me home from partying, again. When I'd pocket a few pills for Kaylee and Starr and me. Until I kind of started wanting her to care.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“I deserved it.” Mave picks up her glasses, slips them back on. “I’d destroyed her relationship, and I hadn’t even been honest about it. I let Danny break the news to her. You may have noticed the lack of photos of Kathy and me in the couple years after I graduated.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People

“Now, the village is crushing me. It is so small. It has eyes and claws and teeth. There is a fairy tale like that.”
― Kit Frick, Very Bad People