You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time of year,… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by.… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“You're brave to have driven all this way." Gwen considered for a moment whether this made her brave. In truth, she was always afraid,… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away.… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“Jim enjoyed watching people take sides. It increased the drama and he loved the drama. Yet it worried him too, since he wanted people… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person." What kind of person, he wanted to know. "Someone," she said… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“You stay loyal to what increasingly disappoints you. It happens all the time.” — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
![“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person." What kind of person, he wanted to know. "Someone," she said slowly, "who truly loves life." He was still looking at her, still cradling his glasses in his left hand. He said, "You're the kind of person who never stops trying.” quote by Elizabeth Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5af/elizabeth-hay-22753_identity_oh-harry-gwen-said-i-wish-i-were-a-diffe_998421.jpg)
