Christina Baker Kline Quotes

This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.

My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected time and time again. And still she breathes and sleeps and grows taller. She wakes up every morning and puts on clothes. So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything.

She is so white-hot furious she can barely see. She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage is a sorrow so enervating it could render her immobile. She needs to keep moving, flickering around the room. She needs o fill her bags and get the hell out of here.

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.