Top 40 Loreth Anne White Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You are beautiful. You are strong. You are enough. You don’t need to be anything more. Or less.”

— Loreth Anne White

2. “Well, yeah, you do have to do some things alone. You come into this life alone, and you go out alone. At the end of the day, it’s just you.”

— Loreth Anne White

3. “Olivia had also told her that all these trembling aspen trees were connected, one big organism joined by a root network underground. If you cut a tree up on this ridge, the others down in that grove would know. She wondered if they would all feel the pain of an ax strike at once.”

— Loreth Anne White

4. “I’ll let you know when we’re done.”

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5. “She was his compass. His true north. She’d showed him the way home.”

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6. “Can you pinpoint the exact instant your life starts on a collision course with someone else’s? Can you trace back to the moment those lives did finally intersect, and from where they spiraled outward again, yet from that point they remained forever entwined, two lives locked one with another?”

— Loreth Anne White

7. “Sometimes those closest are the most blind to the Monster who lives among them.”

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8. “The familiarity of home always outweighed the danger. Deadly mistake, that.”

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9. “She would do whatever it took in the Lord’s or the devil’s name to survive now.”

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10. “People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit.”

— Loreth Anne White

11. “We all move within six degrees.”

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12. “Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream.” Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. “A small act,” he says quietly, “that reshaped the future.” He looks at Ash. “The past doesn’t always have to write the future.”

— Loreth Anne White

13. “It started, as all dialogues do, when a path crosses that of another .”

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14. “The stars in the dark vault of sky were endless. Soft green and blue light with tinges of peach at the edges waved across it in silent curtains. The curtains of gods. “I think she’s watching us from up there.” Tears leaked silently down her face. And in that instant she was certain that from up there, everything must look like it had a plan. A reason. A pattern. She just couldn’t see it from down here.”

— Loreth Anne White

15. “The past doesn’t always have to write the future.”

— Loreth Anne White

16. “People misunderstand power. Real power is being at peace with oneself and living in the moment – not being affected by the currents and actions of others.”

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17. “Because we all lie. Every one of us, and whoever claims they don’t is the biggest liar of all.”

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18. “Each life has a cycle. One makes one’s choices and bears one’s punishment.”

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19. “The Reader flexes a hand that is stiff and still stained with blood. The Reader holds all the power. It is the Reader who breathes life into these words on the page, makes them whole and tangible and frightening in the real world. The.”

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20. “Myron fell silent, his mind seemingly drifting away on some sea of secret sorrow, buoyed by booze and painkillers.”

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21. “PTSD sucked. It was a dragon that lived inside her own head, shaking loose more and more nightmarish memories, each one prompting another like dominoes tumbling.”

— Loreth Anne White

22. “There will come a time, a pastor once told him in prison, when you believe everything is finished. But that will only be the beginning.”

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23. “Emotion. Need. Desire for human contact. And it was killing her because it hurt. It hurt like all hell. And she couldn’t have it.”

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24. “But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice.”

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25. “The pain, the sense of loss, of fear – it would hit out of nowhere. She’d learned this. She’d also learned to accept it, and to bow under it, give in to it, because the harder she tried to shove it away, the harder it hit next time around, and it would be all the more debilitating.”

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26. “That you traveled as far away from this place as you possibly could, only to find yourself back, and it’s all concertinaed down to nothing?”

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27. “Sure it was an odd coincidence for Gage Burton to be in possession of a fly she’d designed and given to her abductor, and for that fly to be tucked in between the pages of a news story that referenced Sebastian. But coincidences happened.”

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28. “He took a deep, long swig and closed his eyes.”

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29. “Release what no longer serves you.”

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30. “She didn’t have the courage that she’d thought she had a moment ago. She felt humiliated and unable to strip herself fully naked, expose herself and her scars to this man.”

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31. “No matter how much we pretend otherwise – mothers, daughters, grandmothers – there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were.”

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32. “Sometimes,” he said quietly, “I wonder if there is a greater plan, if things are just meant to be. If all my life I was supposed to circle back to Broken Bar, and meet you.” Her broken eyes met his. Her hand still rested on Ace. “That’s what I asked Melody Vanderbilt once. She was Gage’s wife, a journalist who used to come and sit with me in the hospital. I asked whether she thought we could pinpoint the exact moment our life first started on a collision course with another’s –.”

— Loreth Anne White

33. “There were photos of steel grappling hooks in the meat shed where the Watt Lake Killer had hung, gutted, flayed, and bled out his victims like slaughtered deer. Photos.”

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34. “It bypasses Watt Lake and heads way up into the forest and mountains out the.”

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35. “Two Metro fire-rescue vessels – bright yellow with.”

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36. “Not by a goddamn long shot.”

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37. “We are – or we become – what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be.”

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38. “We go through life mishearing and mis-seeing and misunderstanding so that the stories we tell ourselves will add up. We fill in gaps that make no sense because we want to believe something.”

— Loreth Anne White

39. “We all need a mask in order to function. But wear the mask too long and we forget who really lives behind it. Right? We forget our authentic selves.”

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40. “Stella, Nathan, and Steven looked at each other in the beams of their headlamps, which they’d clicked on as the twilight thickened. The wind moved the trees again. Darkness was growing complete. The rain was turning to sleet. Despite the sweat over her body, Stella’s hands were numb with cold, and her fingers were growing uncooperative. A recipe for hypothermia.”

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41. “That’s all everyone wants – to be loved. To belong. To be forgiven for their sins.”

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42. “Pain and loneliness washed over her. It would come like this, out of nowhere, at the most unexpected times, prompted by some small thing. Or it would rise like a flood from her belly.”

— Loreth Anne White