19 quotes found
“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”
“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”
“Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.”
“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”
“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”
“Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.”
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger tha...”
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
“My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or...”
“So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time...”
“Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but...”
“I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”
“Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish wher...”
“Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box faci...”
“Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's wha...”
“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in...”
“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always take...”
“I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”
