Wrong Place Wrong Time Quotes

“We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Everything in parenthood feels so endless until it ceases.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Banter can hide the worst sins. Some people laugh to hide their shame, they laugh instead of saying I feel embarrassed and small.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“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?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“The maternal habit of a lifetime, feeling guilty no matter which she chose.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Like the hindsight paradox,” he continues, when he’s bought the doughnuts. “Everyone thinks they knew what was going to happen. They said, I knew it all along! but, actually, they would say that no matter what the outcome. Because our brains are so good at considering every possibility. We’ve known whenever anything was going to happen.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“But isn’t humor a different kind of repression?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“They, mother and son, are a zipper, slowly separating as the years rush by.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“How segmented life is. It splits so easily into friendships and addresses and life phases that feel endless but never, never last. Wearing suits.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Sometimes,” he says gently, when she’s finished, “the emotions of living something the first time prevent us from seeing the true picture, don’t they?” He rubs at his beard. “If I could go back – the things in my life that I would just stand and truly, fully witness, if I knew how they were going to turn out . . .”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Life’s too long for this worry,” he adds.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“continuing her vigil. She’ll wait as long as it takes. Both phases of parenthood – the newborn years and the almost-adult ones – are bookended by sleep deprivation, though for different reasons.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“The love, true love, it should have eclipsed the shame, but there is so much judgment involved in parenthood that it never did. The shame is so easy to access, at the school gates, at the doctor's, on fucking Mumsnet. She can't let it go.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“And, just like that, a friendship was born, out of tragedy and humour, as they often are.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Whatever it is you’ve done, Jen thinks, I’ll never not love you.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Don’t worry. It’s – it’s nothing, probably,” she adds, wondering why she has always felt the need to do that. To be easygoing, not to worry people, to be good.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“...all the ways she's ineffectually mothered Todd crowd into her mind. Feeding him too much so he slept more, upending the bottle while watching daytime television, bored, no eye contact. That time she shouted in frustration when he wouldn't nap. How early she went back to work because her father put pressure on her; enrolling Todd in nursery so young, too young. Has she planted these seeds here? Was she a shit mother, or just a human?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Maybe if she stops trying to learn from it, something will happen.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Throughout her entire career she has always looked for the absence of things as well as their presence. Evidence is often in what people don’t say. What they take out.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“... they had lost touch, the way you sometimes do when a friendship is born out of a common interest only.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Trump is actually just insane – as opposed to merely Republican.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“with no idea of the bullet she’s just dodged; there but for the . . . We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Funny how those things felt so important then. Go and see the Christmas lights, bake and assemble the gingerbread house. And – poof. They disappear into history, causing only stress and leaving no imprint, like a footstep on sand that gets washed away too swiftly. Her entire life, she’s been so concerned with how things seem to be. Keeping up appearances. Having it all, the house with the carved pumpkin so everybody knew they’d done it. And yet. What was it all for?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Walk around them like they’re statues. Love them, just love them, and never go forward into the darkness and lies that await them, remaining here in blissful ignorance.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“What’re we having?” she adds. Her father shrugs, a happy shrug. “Whatever,” he says. “Another person just sort of makes life feel official, doesn’t it? Even if we just have beans on toast.” Jen knows exactly what he means.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“He looks full of the lols...”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Sometimes,” he says gently, when she’s finished, “the emotions of living something the first time prevent us from seeing the true picture, don’t they?” He rubs at his beard. “If I could go back – the things in my life that I would just stand and truly, fully witness, if I knew how they were going to turn out .”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Her entire life, she’s been so concerned with how things seem to be. Keeping up appearances. Having it all, the house with the carved pumpkin so everybody knew they’d done it. And yet. What was it all for?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Oh, the days when people read novels to pass the time.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“But isn't humour a different kind of repression?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time