“He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw a narcissus pushing through ice and thriving, I thought it was perfect and wanted that kind of… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“When I saw the rats the first time, I wanted to drop my basket where it was and run away, but we… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“He and I had already had our time, and though it was still very close and real to me, as beautiful and… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“Not everyone believes in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too –… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next. He was at war now, his… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can ever leave the past behind?' he said. 'I don't know. I hope so.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it,… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too -… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you.… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“A week passes but it feels as if he’s never been anywhere else. It’s one of the things war does to you.… — 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 Image
“That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against yourself.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
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 Image
People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
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 Image
... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
