31 quotes found
“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”
“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”
“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”
“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”
“You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”
“Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.”
“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”
“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ...”
“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”
“Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.”
“Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his...”
“What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and wh...”
“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”
“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”
“For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, ...”
“It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.”
“by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i ...”
“In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.”
“We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I wil...”
“Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.”
“If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.”
“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to ...”
