01UndatedHe reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
02UndatedI want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
03UndatedHow did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it...Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
04UndatedI have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves liveChristina Baker Kline / quote ↗
05UndatedIt's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
06UndatedI want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
07UndatedIf you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
08UndatedMolly 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.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
09UndatedI'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
10UndatedWhen something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
11UndatedIt'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.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
12UndatedThis is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
13UndatedI am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
14UndatedThat 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.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
15UndatedIt's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
16UndatedMost people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.Christina Baker Kline / quote ↗
