74 quotes found
“Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.”
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected.”
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected".”
“The measure of a society is its compassion.”
“I look at people who arent us and I hate them.”
“Do you love him?"How would I know?"You'd know.”
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beati...”
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”
“I am a mother and mothers dont have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
“He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.”
“To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and...”
“Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears,...”
“...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phan...”
“I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.”
“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like ...”
“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”
“Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.”
“She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.”
“We are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.''It's hard to forget,'...”
“It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.”
“She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good peopl...”
“I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.”
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
