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Little Secrets QUOTES

Little Secrets QUOTES

1 " You know what it’s like having a child? ... It’s like your heart walking out the door on two legs, vulnerable and unprotected. It’s scary as hell. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

2 " Who would have thought that who you love and who you feel safe with might not be the same person? "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

3 " There’s a big difference between a man who genuinely wants to be with her, and a man who just doesn’t want to go home. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

4 " The one term Kenzie has never liked is homewrecker. She is not a homewrecker, and neither was the woman her father left them for.
Men wreck their own homes. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

5 " I've learned not to make comparisons. Hell is hell, in all it's incarnations. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

6 " Marin can only imagine what the other woman is thinking. She can feel her judgment oozing through the phone line, because that’s what women do to each other. They judge. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

7 " It’s easier to make spontaneous, life-changing decisions when you’re young and fearless and have nothing to lose. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

8 " Love is unpredictable, and love hurts. Trust is reliable, dependable, and solid. Like "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

9 " They say if a missing child Sebastian’s age isn’t found within twenty-four hours of his disappearance, chances are he never will be.
This is the first coherent thought Marin Machado has every morning when she wakes up.
The second thought is whether this will be the day she’ll kill herself. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

10 " You have to care at least a little to yell at someone, and he has to care about you at least a little to yell back. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

11 " Hope lasts only so long, can carry you only so far. It’s both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes it’s all you have. It keeps you going when there’s nothing else to hold on to. But hope can also be terrible. It keeps you wanting, waiting, wishing for something that might never happen. It’s like a glass wall between where you are and where you want to be. You can see the life you want, but you can’t have it. You’re a fish in a bowl. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

12 " come to realize that trust is better than love. Love is unpredictable, and love hurts. Trust is reliable, dependable, and solid. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

13 " And that’s what life is these days, isn’t it? A series of slips and catches, mistakes and remorse, a constant juggling act of pretending to feel okay when all she wants to do is fall apart. One day, all those balls will drop, and they won’t just break. They’ll shatter. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

14 " Denial is a safe little bubble that protects your soft underbelly from things that scratch, bite, and burn. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

15 " Rage, on the other hand, will get shit done. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

16 " she’ll take anger over sadness, any day. For the past four hundred eighty-six days, sadness has knocked her sideways, debilitated her, confused her, made her weak, talked her into settling for things she doesn’t want, and never did. Rage, on the other hand, will get shit done. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

17 " You always want everything on your terms, Marin, and it’s not fucking fair. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

18 " As they get into their cars, Marin is reminded, and not for the first time, that sometimes someone else’s pain is the only thing that makes yours better. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

19 " Marin is so sick of other women being sorry for things that aren’t their fault. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets

20 " She takes a long sip of the latte. She can’t say if it’s good, because she can’t taste it. The metallic tang in her mouth won’t dissipate. Copper pennies, she’s learning, is what betrayal tastes like. "

― Jennifer Hillier , Little Secrets