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Quotes from Wrong Place Wrong Time — Gillian McAllister

born 1985 England

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11 quotes

But all kids rebel, even the good ones: they just rebel differently.

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

Everything in parenthood feels so endless until it ceases.

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

The past disappears into the horizon like fog, but here she is, able to live it again, to sift through it.

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

The ground has that smoked-damp smell, winter revving its engine softly.

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Don’t all familial irritations get subsumed by grief, in the end?

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

His brain feels like a shaken snow globe.

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She doesn’t chase that thought down the alley it wants to go down, though it’s obvious that it’s nothing good.

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

But knowing the future is worse than not knowing. Isn’t it?

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She wants to stop being alone, just for a while, to stop figuring out all the incomprehensible clues, never moving forward, only backward, backward, backward, a game of snakes and ladders with only snakes.

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How sinister it is to relive your life backward. To see things you hadn’t at the time. To realize the horrible significance of events you had no idea were playing out around you. To uncover lies told by your husband. Jen would always have said Kelly was as straight as they come. But don’t all good liars seem that way?

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gillian McAllister (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.