“I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them… — Laura Dave 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 secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. —Groucho Marx” — Laura Dave Honesty 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
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 Copy Share Image
We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“What happened the day I met your father,' she said, 'is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for… — Laura Dave Choice Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening. — Laura Dave Life Copy Share Image
We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory… — Laura Dave Brain Copy Share Image
“What I’m trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you… — Laura Dave Love 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
“...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
“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
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
“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 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
Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred… — Laura Dave 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 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 Copy Share Image
“was like I was hurting myself and he was showing me how it looked. It was right there on his face. How… — Laura Dave Fear 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 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
“I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running,… — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.” — Laura Dave Love Copy Share Image
“It gets creepy in the Hamptons after Labor Day. Like, I’m talking The Shining creepy.” — Laura Dave Creepy 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?” — Laura Dave 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
