I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

— Christina Baker Kline

I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.

— Christina Baker Kline

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

— Christina Baker Kline

I think about all the ways I’ve been perceived by others over the years: as a burden, a dutiful daughter, a girlfriend, a spiteful wretch, an Inca

— Christina Baker Kline

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

— Christina Baker Kline

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.

— Christina Baker Kline

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

— Christina Baker Kline

It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.

— Christina Baker Kline

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

— Christina Baker Kline

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on." ,

— Christina Baker Kline