“People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.” — Laura Dave 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 with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that. The work he has never wanted to do, that she spent the better part of her life trying to protect him from having to do. To jump beyond the impasses, the stuck places, to go deeper with someone.… — Laura Dave Copy Share
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on… — 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 you started… — 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 have the… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“The calm can't last, not if you're really living. if you're living fully, the storms coming to get you.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“This is the painful part. Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another… — 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
“Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still… — Laura Dave 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
“If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn’t it ultimately just matter that you got the… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
