A Complicated Kindness Quotes
"Life is filled with promise but I think he means the promise of an ending because so far I haven’t been able to put my finger on any other."
"The only thing you hear at night is semis barreling down the highway carting drugged animals off to be attacked with knives."
"I feel that there are so many to choose from. I’m already anticipating failure."
"I wonder if a person can die from [the silence]."
"We enjoy staring at the Northern Lights together."
"Most of the kids from around here will end up working at Happy Family Farms, where local chickens go to meet their maker."
"I told him we’re having a good time and getting by. Why shouldn’t he amend?"
"It’s a very difficult position to be in not only for the person who was shunned but for the people who loved them."
"There is kindness here, a complicated kindness. You can see it sometimes in the eyes of people when they look at you and don’t know what to say."
"I remember wanting to tell Tash about it one evening, it was the type of grotesque detail that could almost make her smile."
"I ran to my parents’ room and hid under the bed and eventually fell asleep."
"Fifty billion years to find a little stability. A molecule’s worth."
"Don’t let’s be the kind of family that fights about who gets to kill themselves next."
"Technically, I should have been thrown from that tree."
"Don’t let’s be the kind of family discovered in freezers."
"Ever noticed how nobody names their kid Cain any more?"
"I sometimes wonder if they’d said party that day if things could have been different."
"It’s the seventies then, and although our town was a secret town."
"I have made two children happy in the course of five minutes."
"You can do anything," he said. "I knew it wasn't true."
"Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams."
"It's impossible to move through the stages of grief when a person is both dead and alive."
"Sometimes she would applaud half-heartedly, but it was always with an expression that said, yeah, whatever, nice try, but everything is bullshit."
"It's hard not to get a little hysterical when you're trying to keep somebody you love alive."
"I’d do whatever was necessary for her to be happy. Except that I’m not entirely sure what that would be."
"It’s like she’s living permanently in an airport terminal, moving from one departure lounge to another but never getting on a plane."
"She was a strange, unsettled planet that had once sustained life."
"I’ve learned, from living in this town, that stories are what matter, and that if we can believe them, I mean really believe them, we have a chance at redemption."
"She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn’t speak it."
"It was great to see the kids again. They’d changed a bit, especially Logan."
"Everything hurts her. Eating hurts her. Walking hurts her. Even drops of water."
"How much faith does it require to feed a fish you haven’t seen in four months?"
"Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?"
"I imagined Tash lying in her bed with her window open thinking hey, that’s Nomi on her French horn, the most beautiful instrument in the world when played properly."