71 quotes found
“You can miss a person you've never known.”
“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.”
“The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.”
“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”
“When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.”
“Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.”
“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little b...”
“I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bon...”
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
“Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlot...”
“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you w...”
“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”
“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”
“It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you l...”
“So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?”
“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”
“Maybe I was nave to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”
“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”
“But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, i...”
“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”
“Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't notic...”
“Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.”
