Quotes from Laura Dave

You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.

Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.

Meus problemas começavam quando eu tentava me encaixar na vida de outra pessoa, ainda mais quando isso significava desistir de uma parte de mim no processo.

I'll have my first still moment to think about myself. To think about what I've lost, what I'll never have back. To think only of myself. And of Owen, of what I've lost- what I'm still losing- without him.

When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me.

I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process.

É terrível saber tudo sobre alguém quando já não queremos saber nada sobre ela há muito tempo.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for

your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been. Home. When you weren't sure you'd ever get to have one.

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.

She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.

In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. —Albert Einstein

transparent with you…" "I wouldn't have guessed." "We received a package yesterday with a zip drive of Owen's work emails. I had to verify they were real, and they are. He kept

She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.

way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been. Home. When you weren't sure you'd ever get to have one.

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another small reminder how lucky I was to love him.

I wasn't scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.

Rotten wood cannot be carved. —Confucius

I'd been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I'd thought it involved running, as far and as fast as your feet could carry you, from your former selves. I didn't understand that was the surest way to wind up exactly where you started. 44 In the morning, I looked out the window, feeling foggy and damp, like I'd had a bottle of wine the night before.