Quotes from Laura Dave

We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

It wasn't just about shaping a block of wood into what you wanted it to be. That it was also a peeling back, to seeing what was inside the wood, what the wood had been before. It was the first step to creating something beautiful. It was the first step to making something out of nothing

Knowing Finn thought I was an awful driver. Like, running of gas while getting a speeding ticket awful.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. —Oscar Wilde

I know it sounds crazy. How can someone figure out how to stay by going again? " I said, trying to explain it. "But going again is the only way I've ever found what I'm looking for.

Gwyn knows everything: the way so many people do who are underestimated, for a million reasons or one, and therefore have more time to pay close attention.

The part where someone looks at you, really looks at you, when you walk into a room. You either have that with someone or you don't.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else - Jacob

She thinks it has something to do with one of her clearest memories of her mother—the two of them sitting on Maggie's bed, early one Saturday morning, eating ginger pancakes and drinking unsweetened iced tea. Listening to the radio. She can still call it up whenever she eats the pancakes. Not just the memory. But the feeling, as if it is happening right now.

For the first two years of "Checking Out," I had an epigraph that ran underneath my byline—a quote from Ernest Hemingway. A simple one-liner that read, "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Be the opposite of you : those words hit me, right away, penetrating the fog. Be the opposite of me? It was day ten and this was the first thing I remember hearing that sounded like a good idea. It was the first thing that sounded something like a real plan.

But if you went with someone you loved, you'd often get more than that. You'd get to share it with them. You'd get to remember what they remembered too.

I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falling apart, and maybe coming together in a greater way than I could have hoped for. You couldn't always work so hard to fix it. Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to -Georgia

If you're not careful, you run out of time.

it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

newspaper at that very table, and was racing

ever managing to do it at the same time. You can't always do it at the same time, but you have to be able to sometimes. Because, ultimately, wasn't being good at it, together, the most important part?

People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evidence of the time that has passed, of the things that have happened.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain, is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory. You follow me?

I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.

tie a silk scarf around her neck and not have it be ironic.

Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.

I smile as they walk up. How can I not? Bailey is smiling too. She is smiling at me. "Mom," she says.

a quote from Ernest Hemingway. A simple one-liner that read, "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.