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21 " Not everything about where you're headed...has to be about where you've been. "
― Kimberly McCreight , Where They Found Her
22 " That’s the hardest part about marriage, isn’t it?” Zach went on. “Somebody else’s problems become your own. It doesn’t always feel fair. "
― Kimberly McCreight , A Good Marriage
23 " And in the end, wasn’t that the key to marriage? Learning to pretend that a few unspoiled things could make up for all the broken ones. "
24 " I’d been so foolish to think love could change the essential nature of anything. "
25 " But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived. "
― Kimberly McCreight , Reconstructing Amelia
26 " It’s so simple at the beginning. You meet someone gorgeous and smart and funny. Somebody who’s better than you—you both know it, at least on some level. You fall in love with them. But you fall even more in love with their idea of you. You feel lucky. Because you are lucky. Then time passes. You both change too much. You stay too much the same. The truth worms its way out, and the horizon grows dark. Eventually all you’re left with is somebody who sees you for who you really are. And sooner or later, they hold up a mirror and you’re forced to see for yourself. "
27 " It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia’s mother—the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be. "
28 " Sometimes, it feels like he’s trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn’t the same thing as understanding them. "
― Kimberly McCreight , The Outliers (The Outliers, #1)
29 " I don't think you can pretend your way through anything. Closing your eyes won't stop the bad things from finding you. "
30 " One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of ridiculous. "
31 " And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I’d been intoxicated by his world of grays. "
32 " i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) E. E. Cummings "
33 " She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous. Of course, it was also the exact same thing that eventually ended up driving the boys away. After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job. "
34 " Forgiveness is a side effect of love "
35 " It was sad that she couldn't remember more. That was the problem with closing off so much of her past - sometimes the good memories went with the bad. "
36 " This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed. "
37 " It’s so simple at the beginning. You meet someone gorgeous and smart and funny. Somebody who’s better than you—you both know it, at least on some level. You fall in love with them. But you fall even more in love with their idea of you. You feel lucky. Because you are lucky. Then time passes. You both change too much. You stay too much the same. The truth worms its way out, and the horizon grows dark. Eventually all you’re left with is somebody who sees you for who you really are. And sooner or later, they hold up a mirror and you’re forced to see for yourself. And who the hell can live with that? So you do what you can to survive. You start looking for a fresh pair of eyes. "
38 " Unlike a lot of couples, we didn’t pretend to be perfect. We were honest about our flaws, and truthful was so much better than perfect. "
39 " Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall. "
40 " ONE CAN'T BUILD LITTLE WHITE PICKET FENCES TO KEEP NIGHTMARES OUT. -Anne Sexton "
― Kimberly McCreight