27 Quotes by Katherine Reay

There were about three other homes after that, but I was barely present. Ihad learned to hide well. I don’t mean to sound breezy about all this, but Iactually don’t recall much outside the deep aloneness I felt when I was apartfrom my books.

Yes, Marianne. She lost her sense of right and wrong. She thought that because loving Willoughby felt good, it had to be right

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

Have you ever confused your senses? Something taste like another thing smells?

Do you know what that's like? A gun held to your head? Your life doesn't flash before your eyes; it stops. Mine stopped, and there was nothing, nothing in me. I didn't exist.

I'm not guaranteed a happy ending just because I make it to the last page.

Self-protection keeps you from love, Mr. Knightley-all love. I am so sad at how I've kept them at a distance-the Muirs, Alex, Father John, Kyle, Hannah...Anyone and everyone who has ever stood by me. I played God in our relationships. I determined their value by how much I let them in, by how much I let them determine my worth. I'm not God. And I don't need to work so hard anymore...

There it was. Mercy. Grace. And just as she'd told James, fiction conveyed change and truth and was loved and digested again and again because it reflected the worst, the best, and all the moments in between of the human experience.

Samantha will be just as polite as I am, my dear. She won't be objective at all... no wait! She corrected my Shakespeare. Maybe she will give you an honest opinion. Let's keep her.