Top 100 Katharine McGee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sorry isn’t a magic eraser that undoes whatever wrong thing you did! You can’t just say sorry and expect everything to be the way it was, not when people have been hurt!”

— Katharine McGee

2. “May my actions be purposeful. I am my own greatest ally. I am enough in myself.”

— Katharine McGee

3. “Some secrets are better buried.”

— Katharine McGee

4. “Her mind was jumbled, everything blurred together and confused; but from the tangled knot of her feelings she had extracted a single crucial thread.”

— Katharine McGee

5. “Who said anything about forgetting? The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it.”

— Katharine McGee

6. “Writers got to pick the endings of their novels, but Beatrice wasn’t living a story. She was living history, and history went on forever.”

— Katharine McGee

7. “All she knew was that one day she woke up and her love for him was simply there, like newly fallen snow. Maybe it had been there all along.”

— Katharine McGee

8. “Elect the king or queen – what a funny concept. Everyone knew that elections only worked for judges and Congress. Making the executive branch pander to the people, go out begging for votes – that could only end in disaster. That structure would attract the wrong sort of people: power-hungry people with twisted agendas.”

— Katharine McGee

9. “There aren’t any happy endings in real life, because there aren’t any endings in life, only moments of change, she wrote, repeating his words. There’s always another adventure, another challenge, another opportunity to find happiness or chase it away.”

— Katharine McGee

10. “Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.”

— Katharine McGee

11. “Tell no one your secrets, Daphne’s mom always said, but make them think that you have. It creates the illusion of intimacy.”

— Katharine McGee

12. “He didn’t know what it was like, wanting something you could never have; how impossible it was to un-want it once you’d let the feeling in.”

— Katharine McGee

13. “Stories are the only real magic that exists. A story can breach the impossible distance between individuals, take us out of our own life and into someone else’s, if only for a moment. Our hunger for story is what makes us human.”

— Katharine McGee

14. “The only people free from censure are people who’ve never taken a stand.”

— Katharine McGee

15. “A smile played around her lips, as if she knew a million secrets that no one could ever guess, which she probably did.”

— Katharine McGee

16. “I expect you to give her your support when she’s earned it and your criticism when she deserves it. That’s what siblings are for, after all.”

— Katharine McGee

17. “I’ve missed you, Eris. You and me, we kind of deserve each other, don’t we?”

— Katharine McGee

18. “She knew this was reckless; it was dangerous, but like all dangerous things, it had a deep, thrilling undercurrent that was richer and better and more alive than anything safe.”

— Katharine McGee

19. “Every gesture, every I love you; all of it was tinted by the great ugly lie underpinning her life.”

— Katharine McGee

20. “She couldn’t trust anyone in the world but herself, but then again, Leda never really had.”

— Katharine McGee

21. “Her head was pressed against his chest and she could hear the erratic beat of his heart, its pulse matching her own. She felt it too – the exhilaration, and underneath it the thin electrifying undercurrent of fear, at the forbiddenness of what they were about to do.”

— Katharine McGee

22. “No one should have to confess to murder alone. Haven’t you heard? That’s what best friends are for.”

— Katharine McGee

23. “If Rylin had learned anything by now, it was that in real life, you never quite knew what was coming. You had to take the bad with the good. You had to take a chance, hold your breath, and trust people. After all, the fun of real life stories is that they’re still being written.”

— Katharine McGee

24. “Up here on the roof, so close to the stars, she felt young and alive and hateful.”

— Katharine McGee

25. “That was the thing about success, it could be even more draining than failure.”

— Katharine McGee

26. “Disengage,” she whispered, pulling the red tab on her wristband. Immediately Avery’s weapons were rendered inactive and she became invisible to everyone in the augmented reality game, able to do nothing except walk back to the staging room until she reactivated. It was like she wasn’t even there, like she’d suddenly erased herself. Which was exactly how she felt.”

— Katharine McGee

27. “It seemed like no time at all had passed, like it was summer again and she and Cord were playing their games – and yet everything was different. It was like an echo of that time, a little less sharp, a little less thrilling. They had both changed too much.”

— Katharine McGee

28. “It was late now; so late that it could once again be called early – that surreal, enchanted, twilight hour between the end of a party and the unfurling of a new day. The hour when reality grows dim and hazy at the edges, when nearly anything seems possible.”

— Katharine McGee

29. “She felt, for the first time in years, like herself. Not the public, painted-on Daphne that she showed the world, but the real seventeen-year-old girl she kept carefully hidden beneath.”

— Katharine McGee

30. “You really want to do something for me?” Eris said suddenly, her lovely face turned up to the sun. She closed her eyes. Her lashes fell in thick brushstrokes across her cheeks. “Live, Avery. With or without Atlas, here in New York or on the damned moon, I don’t care. Just live, and be happy, since I can’t. Promise me that.”

— Katharine McGee

31. “This was how a kiss was supposed to feel – electric and pulsing and smoky all at once, like you’d discovered a new source of fuel that could warm you from within.”

— Katharine McGee

32. “I wish we could erase all those – those atrocities,” she stammered, and was surprised by her father’s reply. “Never say that,” he insisted. “Say you want to make things right, to build a better future. But erasing the past – or worse, trying to rewrite it – is the tool of despots. Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.”

— Katharine McGee

33. “Winner’s curse,” Nadia whispered into his eartennas, and he could swear he heard amusement in her tone. “Where the victor gets exactly what he wants, only to find that it isn’t quite as he expected.”

— Katharine McGee

34. “Her biggest secret was standing right there before her. She just hoped he wasn’t also her biggest mistake.”

— Katharine McGee

35. “She kept looking at the dark stretch of water below them, the bridges spanning the space, dotted with lights. Party guests moved back and forth across in a dance of scattered shadows. She wondered how many of them were with the person they loved tonight – and how many of them were alone, like her.”

— Katharine McGee

36. “Someday, Avery, you’ll learn that it’s not much use running away from things if you have to eventually come back and face them.”

— Katharine McGee

37. “She liked the way the French fell on her ears, mellifluous and soft. It sounded the way honey tasted.”

— Katharine McGee

38. “Nothing mattered except this moment. She felt invincible, untouchable, like she would be this way forever: young and dancing and electric and alive.”

— Katharine McGee

39. “When she finally lifted herself up, she was Princess Beatrice no longer. She had become Her Majesty Beatrice Regina, Queen of America, and long may she reign.”

— Katharine McGee

40. “Usually she looked all bright and sunshiny, but the dark stones captured something else in her, the shadows flitting across her face and along the curve of her collarbone.”

— Katharine McGee

41. “Typical New Yorkers, forever determined to bring the world to them, as if they couldn’t be bothered to leave their tiny island.”

— Katharine McGee

42. “How foolish she’d been, to think that a broken heart would kill her, but it was how she’d felt.”

— Katharine McGee

43. “Real love comes from creating a family together, from facing life together – with all its messes and surprises and joys.”

— Katharine McGee

44. “I believe in happiness. I’m just not sure love will actually get you there.”

— Katharine McGee

45. “Sam had long ago resolved that if she couldn’t be beautiful, she should at the very least be interesting.”

— Katharine McGee

46. “All good storytellers study psychology... Novelists, filmmakers, even actors. You have to know the rules of human behavior before you can make your characters break them.”

— Katharine McGee

47. “I swore that I wouldn’t kiss you again. Obviously I can’t keep my promises, even to myself. Not when it comes to you.”

— Katharine McGee

48. “Relationships never make sense from the outside; the only people qualified to weigh in on them are the people in them.”

— Katharine McGee

49. “Good luck in there,” he called out, but Avery was already a world away.”

— Katharine McGee

50. “Love and trust aren’t the same thing.”

— Katharine McGee