Catie Disabato > Quotes

“Molly loved secret histories. She also loved contradicting accounts of the same historical events. She liked ambiguities. She liked answer-less questions.”
― Catie Disabato, The Ghost Network

“Months and years from now, when I scrolled back in my feeds, would I remember how I’d actually felt, or would I remember this vibrant image that I had placed on top of my feelings like a shroud?”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“You’re supposed to embrace the past, no matter how rough, work your way through it and come to a peace.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I’ll love you for the rest of my life,” I said, which was a more concrete promise than I’ll love you forever, and also one I was prepared to keep.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“Or perhaps, after the collision with the submerged rock, the rough current pulled parts of the broken boat in two directions. While Nix kicked Berliner to shore, Taer floated toward Canada until she became hypothermic, lost consciousness, and sank.”
― Catie Disabato, The Ghost Network

“if you need space, become an astronaut, don’t be friends with me”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I think he was scared of what his brain would produce when it was left alone.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“So they promised this new way of living to the whole world, but when you promise something to the world, the first person you promise it to is yourself.”
― Catie Disabato, The Ghost Network

“Emotional situations that other people experience as a drizzle, I experience as a thunderstorm; a thunderstorm, as a hurricane.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I imagined I had a pit like a peach, but instead of a healthy core, my pit was toxic, it was burning me up, and getting all over everyone I loved, and everyone could smell it.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“You can’t build a moat around the things you like and live there”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“You need to figure yourself out fast, though.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?

“I’d spent a year thinking about how he broke that promise, when I should’ve been thinking about how selfish it was, after he’d left, to make him stay.”
― Catie Disabato, U Up?