Kate Chisman Quotes

“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.”

— Kate Chisman

“In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.”

— Kate Chisman

“I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us ...”

— Kate Chisman

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them ... You were someone to me.

— Kate Chisman

“You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart.
- Adieu”

— Kate Chisman

You wanted a wife but I was
still a girl.

— Kate Chisman

“These were the things we would never notice were missing.”

— Kate Chisman

“The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes”

— Kate Chisman

“The chandelier was wearing on its rubber support and the crack at the side of the ceiling hold was getting bigger. "One day that's going to fall on us and spear you through the heart," he said. I turned to kiss him on the shoulder and closed my eyes.”

— Kate Chisman

“In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn't moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn't swallow away. "Rory" I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn't find it. And he didn't answer.”

— Kate Chisman

“He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn't done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.”

— Kate Chisman

The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes.

— Kate Chisman