“When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.” — Laura Dave Amazing Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for. — Laura Dave Choose Copy Share Image
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job. — Laura Dave Figure Copy Share Image
It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find. — Laura Dave Appreciate Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to… — Laura Dave Chaos Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the… — Laura Dave Believe Copy Share Image
Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep… — Laura Dave Belief Copy Share Image
“Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after… — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
“I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.” — Laura Dave Loss 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… — Laura Dave Fear 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… — Laura Dave Alright Copy Share Image
“People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would… — Laura Dave Break up Copy Share Image
“...maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if… — Laura Dave Life Copy Share Image
“that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to… — Laura Dave Love 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… — Laura Dave Consider Copy Share Image
“A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always… — Laura Dave Scared Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as… — Laura Dave Hope Copy Share Image
People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or… — Laura Dave Knows 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… — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that… — Laura Dave Accept Copy Share Image
“That was what I feared most: that he just wasn’t excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward,… — Laura Dave Feared Copy Share Image
“More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of… — Laura Dave Honesty Copy Share Image
“Where do we go from here? I started off this crazy weekend by trying to make sense of these moments—these moments that… — Laura Dave Memory Copy Share Image
“why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of… — Laura Dave Day life Copy Share Image
“But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that.… — Laura Dave Life Trying Copy Share Image
Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred… — Laura Dave Details Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in every relationship when you see the whole thing. The question is when does the moment come? Is… — Laura Dave First time Copy Share Image
“only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can’t, to resist… — Laura Dave Decide Copy Share Image
That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what… — Laura Dave Behinds Copy Share Image
“Knowing Finn thought I was an awful driver. Like, running of gas while getting a speeding ticket awful.” — Laura Dave Humorous 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 Calm Copy Share Image
“Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you… — Laura Dave Beauty Copy Share Image
“I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that… — Laura Dave Think Copy Share Image
“The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At… — Laura Dave Choice Copy Share Image
“...knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before… — Laura Dave Meet Copy Share Image
“People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You… — Laura Dave Full circle Copy Share Image
