Christina Baker Kline Quotes
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Christina Baker Kline Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.
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.
I know all too well how it is when the beautiful visions you've been fed don't match up with reality.
Easier to assume that people have it out for you than to be disappointed when they don't come through.
You can't find peace until you find all the pieces. She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and fleeting as it may be.
As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?
My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.
I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live
I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.
It is a terrible thing to find the love of your life.... You know too well what you're missing when it's gone.
How strange, I think - that I am in a place my parents have never been and will never see. How strange that I am here and they are gone.
Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.
I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.
The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.
Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.
It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.
It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.
I have found that the biggest moments in life, the ones that change everything, usually catch you by surprise.
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness.
She knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.
To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.
We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there.
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.
We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?
He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.
She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.
And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.
Life's small details are the ones that interest me, anyway. The big questions are too hard to parse.
Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.