Christina Baker Kline quotes

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences? (Christina Baker Kline)

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Christina Baker Kline

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Christina Baker Kline

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

Christina Baker Kline

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

Christina Baker Kline

people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.

Christina Baker Kline

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

Christina Baker Kline

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

Christina Baker Kline

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Christina Baker Kline

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

Christina Baker Kline

It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure. (Christina Baker Kline)

My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.

Christina Baker Kline

I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.

Christina Baker Kline