Christina Baker Kline Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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