“When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.” — Laura Dave Amazing Copy Share Image
“It gets creepy in the Hamptons after Labor Day. Like, I’m talking The Shining creepy.” — Laura Dave Creepy Copy Share Image
“I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.” — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for. — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to… — Laura Dave Chaos Copy Share Image
“When you saw where the truth was, you wanted to get there as quickly as you could, before you lost sight of… — Laura Dave Truth Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep… — Laura Dave Belief Copy Share Image
“To figure out how to be brave enough to find the life I wanted. To hold it, once it was found.” — Laura Dave Brave Copy Share Image
“But men can forget. If too much time goes by, they can forget what they have. How much they want what they… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after… — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
“I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.” — Laura Dave Loss Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it… — Laura Dave Breakups Copy Share Image
“...maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if… — Laura Dave Life Copy Share Image
“You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not… — Laura Dave Family Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as… — Laura Dave Hope Copy Share Image
“that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to… — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
“A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“But consider this,” Jesse said, picking the bourbon back up, “maybe you aren’t in this position because you forgot yourself, but because… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“That was what I feared most: that he just wasn’t excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward,… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running,… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of… — Laura Dave Honesty Copy Share Image
“why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“Where do we go from here? I started off this crazy weekend by trying to make sense of these moments—these moments that… — Laura Dave Memory Copy Share Image
“was like I was hurting myself and he was showing me how it looked. It was right there on his face. How… — Laura Dave Fear Copy Share Image
“But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that.… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would… — Laura Dave Fear Copy Share Image
“If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn’t it ultimately just matter that you… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth — Laura Dave Feelings Copy Share Image
“When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
