Rachel Caine Quotes

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

I don't talk about the past.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

At home we never mention football. Not with my wife, not with my sons, not with my mother. Sometimes they will see something in the paper and ask me what I think. But I say, nothing.

I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Some things are better left buried and forgotten.

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

A relationship could be a place to hide too.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.