Katherine Ewell Quotes

#1. But was it worth anything?
That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.
I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence.
And so is everybody else.

Katherine Ewell

#2. There is no escape for me now, I know. Everything is over. I had my run. I was a murderer, a beautiful one, but I lived in a house of cards all my life and now it's all coming back to punish me, and there is no escape.

Katherine Ewell

#3. Freedom is just another word for no one cares.

Katherine Ewell

#4. What does it mean to be me? I don't know. Maybe that's just it. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe all I am is emptiness, is nothing.

Katherine Ewell

#5. Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something vast and dark and dangerous and explosive.

Katherine Ewell

#6. For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.

Katherine Ewell

#7. What a pity it is that we've lived the lives we've lived.

Katherine Ewell

#8. I kill on order. I am everyone's assassin. I belong to no one but the grim reaper herself.

Katherine Ewell

#9. Sometimes I imagine we're all like paper stars, folded up and gathered together, each of us convinced that we are glittering and celestial, each of us bent into a shape so we believe we're something we're not.

Katherine Ewell