Quotes from Laura Dave

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

I think 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.

I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.

From vine to finish. A single grape the start of it, this unlabeled bottle right here in my hand the end of it, the eight hundred grapes inside.

Be the opposite of you :

going to find what he was looking for there. "Would you feel better if I told you I had some great photography opportunities

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.

You should be careful not to take the person you love for granted. Not only because they'll notice. But you'll notice too. You'll think it means something it doesn't.

If I hadn't forgiven him, I would have given up an entire life with him. Our family. All the good things. I was rewarded for forgiving him

saw me. And it seemed like he was going to do the right thing. But then slowly, evenly, he shook his head. "Your father is welcome to stay on and help run the vineyard. He knows that we would love to have him. He knows that was our preference." I stared at him in disbelief. "Wow, just when I thought you might understand.

Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting." "And how is that good?" "Because that's the only way to get somewhere better." He shrugged. "If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

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

In the dream he was taking off his wedding ring. Look, Hannah, he said. Now you've lost me too.

Maybe freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." She tilted her head. "Did you really just quote Janis Joplin?

If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

One of the first things, Checking Out taught me was how amazing the beginning of a trip could be. How there was nothing at all like the realization, early in one's travels, that all options are readily available.

He lowers his window. "With which part, what?" "Can you help?" "The easy part," he says. "Getting through this." "What's the hard part?" "Owen's not who you think he is," he says. Then Grady Bradford is gone.

I'm not sure we get to, Annie,' he said 'I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

The moment where everything becomes unstuck: the world around you suddenly moving both slower and quicker, until you are completely and totally present in it. Your everything.

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. So I waited until I didn't have to. Until it felt like someone fit effortlessly. Or maybe that's too easy - maybe it's more accurate to say that what was required to be with Owen didn't feel like effort. It felt like details.

And I think my husband knows who he married,' I say. Grady laughs. 'I would think if this taught you anything, it's that no one knows who they marry,' he says.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

She gets to know two pieces of information. The best thing. And the worst. The rest? People think it makes them closer to know everything, but I'm not sure it's fair.

at the center of my life