“I 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.”
“I 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
“Most 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“When 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“I think about all the ways I’ve been perceived by others over the years: as a burden, a dutiful daughter, a girlfriend, a spiteful wretch, an inva”
Christina Baker Kline“It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.”
Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World“That 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, A Piece of the World“I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.”
Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World“This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.”
Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World“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.”
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train“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.”
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train“If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.”
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