Top 100 Katharine McGee Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Love and trust aren’t the same thing.”

— Katharine McGee

52. “She hated that her siblings thought she was cold or unfeeling. Just because she’d been brought up to keep her emotions hidden didn’t mean that she never experienced those emotions.”

— Katharine McGee

53. “Maybe that was just the way love went – it was something that happened to you, and the best preparation you could hope for was the chance to take a deep breath before the wave of it crashed above you and you were in over your head.”

— Katharine McGee

54. “Maybe that’s all that praying was, she thought, just wishing good outcomes on other people.”

— Katharine McGee

55. “If you aren’t sure, then you definitely aren’t in love.”

— Katharine McGee

56. “Samantha, criticism is a good thing. It means you’ve fought for something.”

— Katharine McGee

57. “She nodded, breaking every promise to herself, loving him.”

— Katharine McGee

58. “They say that before death, people’s lives flash before their eyes. But as the ground rushed ever faster toward her, the girl could think only of the past few hours, the path she’d taken that ended here. If only she hadn’t talked to him. If only she hadn’t been so foolish. If only she hadn’t gone up there in the first place.”

— Katharine McGee

59. “For the rest of tonight she would be the most sparkling, unattainably gorgeous version of herself, nothing but smiles and flashing eyes – and no one would ever see how hurt she was, beneath it all.”

— Katharine McGee

60. “Rich girls never left something expensive on the ground, unless they’d been the one to toss it there.”

— Katharine McGee

61. “But the thing about the truth was that once you learned it, it became impossible to unlearn.”

— Katharine McGee

62. “Her body was reacting instinctively to his nearness, like a plant that had been too long in the dark and was finally exposed to sunlight.”

— Katharine McGee

63. “Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”

— Katharine McGee

64. “She was maddening and stubborn and tormented and deeply flawed, but so was he; and maybe the important thing wasn’t finding someone without flaws, but just someone whose flaws complemented your own.”

— Katharine McGee

65. “Lust was so delightfully uncomplicated and straightforward, while female friendships were inevitably layered with conditions, and history, and unspoken rules of behavior.”

— Katharine McGee

66. “Watt’s eyes were still glued to Avery as she moved through the crowded room, a bright golden beacon.”

— Katharine McGee

67. “Some secrets are better buried.”

— Katharine McGee

68. “When I rent out an entire restaurant, it’s only because it seems unfair to all the other guests when I show up,′ he went on. ‘They’ve gone out to celebrate something – a birthday, a friend moving to town, maybe just the fact that it’s Friday – and then I appear, and the spotlight shifts from them to me. It feels selfish to steal everyone’s night like that.”

— Katharine McGee

69. “Everywhere I go, you catch up to me. Everywhere I run, I keep seeing you. Every time, you happen to me, all over again.”

— Katharine McGee

70. “Maybe we can’t care deeply about someone without being hurt by them, too.”

— Katharine McGee

71. “Maybe it’s inevitable that we’re going to be hurt, when we let other people in. Maybe we can’t care deeply for someone without being hurt by them, too,” she said softly.”

— Katharine McGee

72. “You are as strong as you need to be.”

— Katharine McGee

73. “It’s not my fault that most things worth doing are against the rules.”

— Katharine McGee

74. “Yes, exactly, because you’re a woman, and the world will make everything exponentially more difficult for you. It isn’t right, or fair, but it is the truth.”

— Katharine McGee

75. “It struck Nina that this was one of those instances where the English language fell short. The word for losing something insignificant – a baseball game, a library card – shouldn’t be the same as for losing someone who defines you, someone you love. There should be a word for losses you can recover from, and a different word for the life-shattering losses, the ones that leave you forever changed.”

— Katharine McGee

76. “She leaned back in her chair, watching the sunrise as if it were a private performance intended just for her. And for a moment it felt that way: as if the sun was showing off for her benefit, reminding her how wonderful it was to be young and alive and in New York.”

— Katharine McGee

77. “But we fell in love, day by day, he’d said. Real love comes from facing life together, with all its messes and surprises and joys.”

— Katharine McGee

78. “Beatrice caught herself wondering if two people could fall in love this way-by loving the same thing so deeply that their excess love spilled over and drew them towards each other.”

— Katharine McGee

79. “Leda was struck by how much Avery reminded her of Atlas. They weren’t related by blood, and yet they had the same white-hot intensity. When they turned the full force of their attention on you, it was as blinding as looking into the sun.”

— Katharine McGee

80. “Because you’re you. She was struck by the utter simplicity of it.”

— Katharine McGee

81. “There was a downpour coming; Avery could feel it. The wind was already gaining strength, tearing out the last of her hairpins, whipping her dress close to her body. The air was heavy with the scent of rain.”

— Katharine McGee

82. “There was something heady about walking up to the mirror as a single person, only to find that when you stood a certain way, you were multiplied into an army.”

— Katharine McGee

83. “She had never consciously decided to love him; her love for him had just appeared one day, slipping under her skin and entwining itself around her heart so tightly that she couldn’t shake it loose – and didn’t really want to.”

— Katharine McGee

84. “The touch of his lips on hers was featherlight, tentative, uncertain. She closed her eyes as the kiss sent a thrill through her body, until it felt like her hair was standing on end, like her whole body was a live wire, humming with electricity.”

— Katharine McGee

85. “When she was younger Beatrice had thought time moved so slowly, that a year was an eternity to wait for something. Now it felt like physics had twisted and time had accelerated, and she wasn’t sure how to keep up.”

— Katharine McGee

86. “You think your predecessors never made mistakes?” he asked, then swiftly answered his own question. “Of course they did. Our nation’s history is woven from their errors in judgment, their wrong decisions, as much as it is from their achievements.”

— Katharine McGee

87. “I know you understand what I mean when I say that my position has always defined me.” “It shouldn’t. Your position doesn’t define you; you define your position.”

— Katharine McGee

88. “What was that saying, grief is the price we pay for love?”

— Katharine McGee

89. “Outside, the storm must be raging-but here, in the pocket of warmth they had created, Beatrice felt safe. And loved.”

— Katharine McGee

90. “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

91. “The future didn’t belong to people like Robert anymore. It belonged to her and Teddy, to Samantha and Jeff. To their entire generation of people, who were all dreaming and fighting and doing their best to make the world a better place.”

— Katharine McGee

92. “When had she started letting her fears dictate her actions?”

— Katharine McGee

93. “From now on, it’s you and me.”

— Katharine McGee

94. “What a damn shame, to have the best views in the world, only to cover your walls with mirrors and brocade curtains.”

— Katharine McGee

95. “All I’ve ever done for America is give and give and give, and still America wants more! When will it ever be enough?”

— Katharine McGee

96. “I’ve found that while a grilled cheese won’t solve my problems for me, it makes them a bit easier to manage. Don’t you agree?”

— Katharine McGee

97. “Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.”

— Katharine McGee

98. “It was so much easier to break an arm than to break your heart. Hearts didn’t heal themselves. Hearts didn’t remake themselves stronger than before.”

— Katharine McGee

99. “Only you would daydream about a library meet-cute.”

— Katharine McGee

100. “Underneath that skin they were the same, a frame of bones supporting a tangle of nerves and muscles and a steadily beating heart. It seemed ridiculous that anyone should care what color wrapped around it all.”

— Katharine McGee