“Getting married had been all his idea, but he hadn't told her how very afraid of it he was. He seemed to need to force his way through it anyway, as he did with everything that scared him terribly. He… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for… — Paula McLain Copy Share
“That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against yourself.” — Paula McLain Copy Share
“He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next.” — Paula McLain Copy Share
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced… — Paula McLain Copy Share
People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing. — Paula McLain Copy Share
I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a… — Paula McLain Copy Share
... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way. — Paula McLain Copy Share
“It was august. for years it was august … . there was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming… — Paula Mclain Copy Share
“We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like… — Paula McLain Copy Share
“There are things I didn't see before, like how nice it is to have someone around. Not the white knight whisking you away, but… — Paula McLain Copy Share
“That's obviously, isn't it?' she said. 'A hawk is always a hawk, except'- and here she raised on heavy eyebrow and gave a mysterious… — Paula McLain Copy Share
“I hope we’ll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who’ve been married so long you… — Paula McLain Copy Share
“It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happines anyway?” — Paula McLain Copy Share
