Katrina Kittle > Quotes

“Authenticity and happiness are the best beauty products out there”
― Katrina Kittle, Reasons to Be Happy

“Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face”
― Katrina Kittle, Traveling Light

“It went against human nature to truly savor every moment and continually remain aware of all they had to be grateful for.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Kindness of Strangers: A Widow Becomes a Foster Mother and Discovers the Healing Power of Love and Forgiveness

“We just decided to. We said if we were going to end it, we had to earn our way out. We had to pick up every single stone and look beneath it for a solution. We vowed we weren’t walking away until we’d exhausted every possible option.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Blessings of the Animals

“They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Kindness of Strangers: A Widow Becomes a Foster Mother and Discovers the Healing Power of Love and Forgiveness

“These teeth marks?” he said. “These stitches? They add to the beauty of the saddle, to the value. They announce it was worth saving. I won’t replace it until it falls off in two pieces from the horse’s back.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Blessings of the Animals

“But it’s okay that you think that. I think it takes a lot of energy and hard work to pretend things are perfect. I think I’d get really exhausted trying to pretend that. Sometimes it takes a lot of guts and bravery to admit that things aren’t perfect, that they’re not even okay. How would anyone know I needed help if I was always pretending everything was fine?”
― Katrina Kittle, The Kindness of Strangers: A Widow Becomes a Foster Mother and Discovers the Healing Power of Love and Forgiveness

“Remember this moment. Be aware of the good. Keep it for the dark days.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“Oh God, how had it come to this? She was not this kind of person! She’d always worked hard, saved her money, paid her bills on time. How could she paddle so hard and still not keep her head above water?”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“I’m all right.” Good Lord, the woman had heard her over the water. Get a grip. And you are not all right. You are not all right at all. Pretending isn’t going to make anything go away.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“She was rude and nasty to the person who was safest and the most reliable in her whole world. That sucked.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“don’t think the American personality is very well suited to sacrifice.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“Wren knew all the ways to make wishes and included pictures of those things: the first star you saw at night, birthday candles, a wispy white dandelion, three birds on a telephone wire, a digital clock at 11:11, a fountain full of coins. There was even one of her stray eyelashes in the collage, but no one knew it was there but her.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“The whole thing was pretty unfair when Wren thought about it. She was rude and nasty to the person who was safest and the most reliable in her whole world. That sucked. She sucked.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“The hug fueled her. Lifted her. You can do this.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“fear darted through her veins like a school of tiny panicked fish.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“Remember this moment. Be aware of the good. Keep it for the dark days.” So”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“I’d been too busy tending to his happiness”
― Katrina Kittle, The Blessings of the Animals

“The work consumed her while she was in it, providing distraction from the anxiety that had become a constant buzz.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“The missing him was savage. Gutting. He should be here, beside her, both of them facing this hard thing they would get through together.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“Had he told anyone?”
― Katrina Kittle, The Blessings of the Animals

“What the hell exactly was she going to do? She sucked in a breath again, like a gasp, and realized she felt like she was drowning.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“No more of these ridiculous flags and banners. What on earth is wrong with people? We’re electing people to govern, not joining a cult.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“This entire day could kiss her ass. Then fuck right off.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“The beauty of steroids was their immediate effect.”
― Katrina Kittle, The Blessings of the Animals

“If you really, really knew a person, you knew the little things they loved, the small things that made them just who they were.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“Remember this moment, this beauty, and bring it back on a dark day.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“you really, really knew a person, you knew the little things they loved, the small things that made them just who they were.”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World

“How did people do this, for heaven’s sake? How was she supposed to get up and go on with this sorrow hanging on her, dragging her down?”
― Katrina Kittle, Morning in This Broken World