“He thought that maybe when you're making your way forward into your life, it just looks higgledy-piggledy, the way, if you were a fly walking across one of Beautiful Girl's drawings all you'd be able to see was green, then… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“And she’d felt an opening in her chest where she hadn’t known anything was closed.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn’t do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“So you never know when you can get through. p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
