Quotes from Inglath Cooper

when people are different and don't believe the same things, it's not likely that a life together would ever work.

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

make expectation parallel with reality.

He turned his face to hers, and she kissed him, nothing soft and introductory, just picking up where they'd left off, two people who knew each other's bodies.

Maybe it's true that if we do give in to worrying about what might happen, it's almost as if it has. We live the fear in our minds.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs. – Emily Dickinson

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. – Mark Twain

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. – Ovid

Blame, I guess, is a heavy burden to indulge. Forgiving my father doesn't make me miss my mother any less, or change the fact that I long to have her in my life now, for selfish reasons, I admit. Maybe that's the hardest thing to accept about being an adult. The fact that things happen to us in this world that we simply have no control over. Or any ability to change the outcome of.

It's what we take for granted that is actually most important to us.

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." ? Henny Youngman

And then you find yourself living what you never imagined. ~ Author Unknown

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Author Unknown

He felt an enormous responsibility in being the one to declare their worth or lack thereof. What if he threw away something that had been especially meaningful to his grandmother, a family memory that once discarded by him would no longer exist?

We may think we have forever. . .no one does.

Do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future. ~ Queen Elizabeth II

The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.

Because I own my choices. I decided at some point along the way not to care if another person doesn't approve of my choice. I need to know that I think it's the right choice.

Is there a girl out there who doesn't want to be looked at the way Mr. Darcy looked at Elizabeth?

Like she's realized, really realized, she's failed as a mother. I instantly regret being the one to bring the realization to the surface again.