Someone Else’s Life Quotes
"I think I’m a fucking blast of sunshine, thank you very much."
"Life's too short. You need to get your head out of your ass."
"I know it’s been almost four years. I’m trying, okay?"
"You’re an emotional wreck, your son is afraid of you, and your husband looks miserable half the time."
"Being Taiwanese is different from Chinese, right?"
"Asian people do not have mental health issues."
"She had waited for me to come back. She passed away in my arms."
"I knew it was going to be a bad year after that. And it was."
"My mother died here in Kauai five months after that, and then the next month, I lost my dance studio and company."
"I kind of... lost it. No one could help me. I wanted to die."
"Understanding passed between them, and all Annie felt in that moment was relief that someone finally, finally, understood her."
"The excitement the day she’d found the space, building the sprung dance floor, having mirrors and barres installed, and decorating the changing room."
"That was the last straw. To lose Lili, then my mother, and then my career and everything I’d worked so hard for."
"I thought I did too, until we moved to the lake house."
"He promised to love me always and be my best friend, my new family."
"He promised me the world, and then he left me all alone."
"I learned how to sing ‘Tomorrow’ before I learned English."
"The house where we would raise our family. Everything was perfect. And then you came along."
"I’m glad my car chose your street to conk out in."
"If I can’t figure out my life here, where else can I do it?"
"She disappeared. For all I know, she’s dead."
"I’ve been there. Whatever it was that set it off, I’m here, okay?"
"Even with her hesitancy, Annie could see how luminous her face was when she smiled, as if lit from within."
"You’d think drinking mai tais in paradise would make me feel better. But most of the time I just feel so blah and gross."
"In show business, a spectacle is never a bad thing."
"It’s weird, right? Why do you think we feel like this? Is it all a coincidence, or do you think there’s something sinister going on?"
"I really like her, but my parents aren’t going to approve."
"Grief welled inside her, catching her by surprise."
"At the same time, she was having a hard time reconciling the woman who’d tried to bash her over the head with the woman she’d genuinely liked."
"Thinking of the car, Annie jolted up, putting the pastry down."
"She hesitated a moment and then turned the ignition, wondering why she was so surprised when the car started right away."
"Curiosity about Serena swept through her, a puzzle that Annie had to figure out."
"She’d have to tell the police about the car, have someone come get it."
"The breath whooshed out of her as she stared at it."
"I knew he’d grow up to be something really smart, like a scientist who finds cures for cancer."
"I couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t get dressed. I couldn’t do anything."
"I needed someone to tell me what to do again."
"You just buy the child a ticket in any name and they let him through."
"Maybe one day, we’ll even come back here to Kauai."
"Serena had planned this. She’d befriended Annie with a motive."
"A spark of anger and sorrow lit within her, that she’d been so easily duped."
"For the first time in a long time, I didn’t wake up burdened."
"It’s like I’m watching a video of another me."
"But she said being out in nature calmed her, especially when the rest of the world was so chaotic."
"I couldn’t take it anymore. I rushed at her, wanting to inflict as much pain on her as she had on me."
"She’d just sunk like a stone, probably because she’d been so drunk."
"Because my life is about to begin again. Today is the day I will finally meet you."
"Annie was sure Serena had drowned. Just like her mother."
"This is our new beginning. The one thing Serena made me realize was how much you and Finn and my family mean to me."
"She was ready to start living again, to be Brody’s wife and Finn’s mother."
"Finn was her world, even if she’d been too mired in depression the last few years to see it."
"She was happy Finn wasn’t as traumatized as he’d been with Lindsay."
"Finn was their real son. They’d raised him, been his parents his whole life."
"Annie would do anything for Finn, would help him, no matter what."
"She was not going to allow Serena, if she was really out there, to fuck with her mind anymore."