Paula McLain Quotes
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And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.
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Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
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A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see…
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But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were…
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I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they…
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I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only…
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I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself…
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And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who…
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My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
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On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to…
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Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have…
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The very rich only admire themselves
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It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space…
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This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of…
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It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together…
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To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to…
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She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful…
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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 sap.
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I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.
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