“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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for. — Laura Dave Not sure 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
“I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.” — Laura Dave 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
“...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 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
It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find. — Laura Dave Appreciate 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 Accepting 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
“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 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
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job. — Laura Dave Figures 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
“A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding… — Laura Dave Age Copy Share Image
“quoting Steinbeck—Peter said, “ ‘A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” — Laura Dave Marriage Copy Share Image
“I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.” — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
“I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that’s the only thing… — Laura Dave Love 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… — Laura Dave Family Copy Share Image
“You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that?… — Laura Dave Strategy Copy Share Image