Kate Kerrigan Quotes

#1. You can't make another person happy: they have to make themselves happy.

Kate Kerrigan

#2. There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

Kevin Sampsell

#3. A mother draws a map for her child and places herself at the center of it. Her death wipes that map clean. She leaves you knowing you must redraw it to survive and yet not knowing where to start.

Kate Kerrigan

#4. Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.

Kate Kerrigan

#5. Perhaps it is our dreams that keep us young. Older women who cling on to youth may look ghoulish, but perhaps they are happier than those of us who grow old and crochety before our time.

Kate Kerrigan

#6. When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

Kate Kerrigan

#7. Everyone is capable of hate, of wanting to hurt, even kill another person. But when those hatreds manifest themselves out of the mind and into real life, a line is crossed. The line between human and animal.

Kate Kerrigan

#8. I thought that you could not make a commitment until you were truly in love. What I know now is that you cannot love truly until you have made a commitment.

Kate Kerrigan

#9. But that wasn't my way: why should I alter my manner of doing things to please my husband? In any case, it wasn't our way to tiptoe around each other, either.

Kate Kerrigan

#10. I am not concerned that you have fallen
I am concerned that you arise.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Jonathan Swift

#12. When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.

Kate Kerrigan

#13. When you are around something every day you stop seeing it.

Kate Kerrigan

#14. I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

Andy Weir

#15. Questions are the sign of an active, intelligent mind, a filter you rinse your ideas through before you make a decision. But sometimes the filter gets clogged and then it becomes a barrier to the truth.

Kate Kerrigan

#16. To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

#17. Dan is not the right guy or the wrong guy. He is just my guy. My husband. The one I chose on the day I chose him, and right now, I plan to go on choosing him for the rest of my life.

Kate Kerrigan

#18. Life can be hard, but then we make it even harder by the way we look at it.

Kate Kerrigan

#19. Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important, like politics and religion, but agree on everything that is important, like where the dustpan and brush should live, and his sons' girlfriends.

Kate Kerrigan

#20. All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

Kate Kerrigan

#22. Trust is nothing when you have it. It's bread and milk. Basic. There's no glamour, no emotion, no drama - you just trust and that's it. Trusting someone is boring. It's a non-event. But take it away - try living without trust and suddenly your relationship is plunged into a living hellhole.

Kate Kerrigan

#23. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.

Kate Kerrigan

#24. Perhaps intimacy is not just loving everything about him, but knowing everything about him - and staying anyway.

Kate Kerrigan

#25. In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's imagination. My life was suspended - I was in neither one place nor the other.

Kate Kerrigan

#26. Sometimes, when you are really attached to an ideal, it is just not possible to compromise.

Kate Kerrigan