"We Need to Talk About Kevin" Quotes

You do the best you can. You show up. You love your family.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I wouldn't say I was a happy person. I'm not unhappy, but I'm not happy. I can be a little sweet-natured, you know, but mostly I'm kind of cynical and a little bit of a bitch.

There's a lot of lying in that house. A lot of pretending. And a lot of not telling.

There's always a source to a smell. It's not like a dream or a smell can come out of nowhere.

I'm sick of pretending that I'm not a total bitch.

I've never understood how a woman can ever do anything that is not in the interest of her children.

I think it's better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.

You can only hold onto the best bits of some people.