Quotes from Laura Dave

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.

He raised a glass to them and said, wherever they were, he was grateful to them for not being what I needed, so he got to be the one sitting across from me.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.

You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

White Russians.

Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us- the people we try to love.

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

What's the hard part?" "Owen's not who you think he is," he says.

now. 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.

every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.

with work, you can give something the strength at the beginning that it needs later on. Before it even knows how it's going to need it.

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. That's what

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.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

sometimes you find your way to the place that wants you most.

Wasn't that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you'd been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself.

As she reads, I listen to her

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant

Achei que se eu fosse legal, gente boa, ela entenderia que pode contar comigo. Mas não é assim que a gente sabe que pode contar com alguém. A gente descobre isso nos momentos em que todo mundo está cansado demais para ser legal, cansado demais para se esforçar. A gente descobre vendo o que essa pessoa faz por nós.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) —e. e. cummings

That's the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.

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