Quotes from Nancy Thayer

It's funny, but if I had to say whom I'm closer to, who knows me better, I'd have a hard time choosing between my husband and my best friend.

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

The land doesn't know who owns it. It was here before owners, and will be here after, content with itself in all seasons.

Sometimes it's quite enough simply to be happy.

having children seems to demand a completely different level of courage

The waves had already washed away her footprints. But the tide had left something: a small creamy rock shaped like a heart, polished into a dull gleam by sand and water. Emma picked it up and held it in her hand. Her mother would say: The sea has given you a sign.

Life isn't all about money, Keely. Remember what you and Isabelle used to call yourselves? Surfside Sisters? Because you would both leap into life instead of dawdling at the edge, waiting, until it was safe.

I think anger is often a kind of recycled fear.

She always gave herself some time to browse the library shelves to check out new reads she hadn't heard about and wasn't sure she would want to stick with. Like agreeing to only coffee on a first date, rather than an entire meal.

The Great Point lighthouse rose at the far end of the barrier beach, a tall white steeple to the sky, with a working light flashing at the top. Here was the end of the island, the great point where the Atlantic Ocean met Nantucket Sound in a froth of waves. All along the point, enormous fat seals lolled on the sand, occasionally lumbering in and out of the water, grunting and lounging like a tribe of overfed Roman emperors.

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know. Or maybe it was this way only in her family.

they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.

Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved." Tears filled Sophie's eyes. "I've never heard you