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Top 30 Kimberly McCreight Quotes (2024 Update)

Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Let go or be dragged.”

1. “Let go or be dragged.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”

2. “Sometimes it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “In order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. E. M. Forster.”

3. “In order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. E. M. Forster.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “I promise to be your light home” was his last vow. And in so many ways, meeting Sam had been a flare shot off, startling me awake and blazing a trail through my darkness. And yet, we’d ended up so hopelessly lost.”

4. “I promise to be your light home” was his last vow. And in so many ways, meeting Sam had been a flare shot off, startling me awake and blazing a trail through my darkness. And yet, we’d ended up so hopelessly lost.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia’s mother – the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.”

5. “It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia’s mother – the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “What is that Zen saying of yours, Rose? ‘Let go or be dragged’?”

6. “What is that Zen saying of yours, Rose? ‘Let go or be dragged’?”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Sometimes, it feels like he’s trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn’t the same thing as understanding them.”

7. “Sometimes, it feels like he’s trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn’t the same thing as understanding them.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.”

8. “Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I’d been intoxicated by his world of grays.”

9. “And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I’d been intoxicated by his world of grays.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous. Of course, it was also the exact same thing that eventually ended up driving the boys away. After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”

10. “She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous. Of course, it was also the exact same thing that eventually ended up driving the boys away. After all, there’s a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.”

11. “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous.”

12. “She had a wildness tucked inside her that made her seem fun and unpredictable and just a little tiny bit dangerous.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “I’d been so foolish to think love could change the essential nature of anything.”

13. “I’d been so foolish to think love could change the essential nature of anything.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Besides, when you were married to an alcoholic, you got tired of excavating details. Don’t ask, don’t tell. It was easier that way to pretend you had absolutely zero role in anything that happened to you. Or not you. Me. That was what I had always done – wipe away the inconvenient facts to keep my eyes on the prize: forward momentum.”

14. “Besides, when you were married to an alcoholic, you got tired of excavating details. Don’t ask, don’t tell. It was easier that way to pretend you had absolutely zero role in anything that happened to you. Or not you. Me. That was what I had always done – wipe away the inconvenient facts to keep my eyes on the prize: forward momentum.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize.”

15. “But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Unlike a lot of couples, we didn’t pretend to be perfect. We were honest about our flaws, and truthful was so much better than perfect.”

16. “Unlike a lot of couples, we didn’t pretend to be perfect. We were honest about our flaws, and truthful was so much better than perfect.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Time deepens friendship, Sarah said. Romances, eh, not so much.”

17. “Time deepens friendship, Sarah said. Romances, eh, not so much.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “In turns out, there is a certain solace in sadness. Solace, and maybe freedom.”

18. “In turns out, there is a certain solace in sadness. Solace, and maybe freedom.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Not everything about where you’re headed... has to be about where you’ve been.”

19. “Not everything about where you’re headed... has to be about where you’ve been.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Simple” Kate had wanted to say, “I’m already dead.”

20. “Simple” Kate had wanted to say, “I’m already dead.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush.”

21. “Pretty bows on a pile of sh$t only make it harder to flush.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Contrary to previous assumptions, maternal depression can also manifest in a myriad of ways, many far different from what some might consider traditional depressive symptoms, including psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders.”

22. “Contrary to previous assumptions, maternal depression can also manifest in a myriad of ways, many far different from what some might consider traditional depressive symptoms, including psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “The moment was so beautiful and perfect-Ella and the ice cream and the sun. But it didn’t feel like it belonged to me, not in any permanent sense. Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.”

23. “The moment was so beautiful and perfect-Ella and the ice cream and the sun. But it didn’t feel like it belonged to me, not in any permanent sense. Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Forgiveness is a side effect of love.”

24. “Forgiveness is a side effect of love.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Giving people too much all but guarantees they’ll never really love you.”

25. “Giving people too much all but guarantees they’ll never really love you.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “That’s the hardest part about marriage, isn’t it?” Zach went on. “Somebody else’s problems become your own. It doesn’t always feel fair.”

26. “That’s the hardest part about marriage, isn’t it?” Zach went on. “Somebody else’s problems become your own. It doesn’t always feel fair.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “It was sad that she couldn’t remember more. That was the problem with closing off so much of her past – sometimes the good memories went with the bad.”

27. “It was sad that she couldn’t remember more. That was the problem with closing off so much of her past – sometimes the good memories went with the bad.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “Why are the bad things always so much easier to believe? It shouldn’t be that way but it is every single time, you’re too sensitive, and too worried they say, you care too much about all the wrong things. One little whisper in your ear and the words tumble through your head like you’re the one who thought them first. Hear them enough and pretty soon they’re etched on the surface of your heart.”

28. “Why are the bad things always so much easier to believe? It shouldn’t be that way but it is every single time, you’re too sensitive, and too worried they say, you care too much about all the wrong things. One little whisper in your ear and the words tumble through your head like you’re the one who thought them first. Hear them enough and pretty soon they’re etched on the surface of your heart.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “And in the end, wasn’t that the key to marriage? Learning to pretend that a few unspoiled things could make up for all the broken ones.”

29. “And in the end, wasn’t that the key to marriage? Learning to pretend that a few unspoiled things could make up for all the broken ones.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed.”

30. “This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed.”

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Kimberly McCreight Quote: “I don’t think you can pretend your way through anything. Closing your eyes won’t stop the bad things from finding you.”

31. “I don’t think you can pretend your way through anything. Closing your eyes won’t stop the bad things from finding you.”

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