Quotes from Caroline Leavitt

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.

Sometimes, to live your life, you had to protect yourself against what other people might take from you.

Death made you look differently at the people you loved. Their real selves weren't there to contradict your beliefs about them. The dead became a whole other person.

Maybe love didn't die even when a person did, but that didn't mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.

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Nothing stayed the same. That was scientific fact. He wouldn't do anything to push things in a new direction, but he knew that one way or another, life eventually would.

You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the commandments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma.

Having a child is, well, it's just profound. Even as they grow, you just stop and look at them and you keep thinking in absolute wonderment, Where did you come from? How is it possible you're here?

She touched his arm, making his heart skitter. It was never a good sign when they touched you. He had seen far too many television hospital dramas to imagine what was going to come next: the lowered voice, the steady gaze, the bad news.

I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, 'Anything is possible, including angels.'

If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.