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Katie Williams QUOTES

Katie Williams QUOTES

1 " Wes slid two more cigarettes out of the pack, offering one to me.

“I don’t smoke.”

“Why not? It gives you superpowers, you know.”

“What? Like cancer?” I said "

― Katie Williams , Absent

2 " I want to only imagine things, not know them. "

― Katie Williams , The Space Between Trees

3 " People want to believe bad things, I tell myself, glaring around at my classroom. They want to believe the most shocking story. They see you as the worst version of yourself. "

― Katie Williams , Absent

4 " We're quiet then, quiet enough that I can hear the books around me creaking in their shelves, rustling their pages, stretching their spines, as if they have something to add to the conversation. Which some of them probably do. "

― Katie Williams , Absent

5 " In this overcrowded, underwhelming world, any gesture, no matter how slight, expressing that one person recognizes another person is a nice thing indeed. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

6 " I let her clasp my hand and stare at me with her big, dark eyes. Because I know that when people comfort you, they're really just comforting themselves. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

7 " a type of violence, that much charm continuously wielded, a blade that severed you from your own good sense. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

8 " There is no origin for the word love. It is one of the first words and has always meant only itself. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

9 " Or will she appear down below, a pale blinking girl in the dark lake of the parking lot? "

― Katie Williams , Absent

10 " Unhappiness breeds unkindness, "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

11 " What they don’t understand is that it condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

12 " But there is knowing something and then there is feeling it. For adults, these are two different things. For children, they are one. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

13 " I feel it, that expansiveness specific to childhood, the breath filling you all the way up to the puff of your cheeks, the feeling that each breath is good. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

14 " Prohibition! Everyone loves a flapper dress or a fake tommy gun, but who remembers the thousands of people who went blind drinking unregulated wood alcohol? "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

15 " Cruelest are the punishments we visit upon ourselves. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

16 " It was one of the unfair things of life--that your child had to look like your ex-husband. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

17 " You will take a long trip and you will be very happy, though alone. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

18 " What they don’t understand is that my condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

19 " Because I know that when people comfort you, they’re really just comforting themselves. "

― Katie Williams , Tell the Machine Goodnight

20 " I’m shaking my head rapidly, though I don’t tell her that this is the same thought that I’ve had a hundred times, only about myself, that I’m next, the next one, the next victim. I know that the Whisperers fear it, too. I don’t go outside at night anymore, not even into my backyard, one says in the tenor of a confession, and the others nod yes, yes. So maybe we’re all thinking it: I’m next. Maybe that’s part now, of being . . . what? Young? A girl? "

― Katie Williams , The Space Between Trees