Paula McLain Quotes

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• And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.
• Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
• Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
• 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…
• 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…
• The very rich only admire themselves
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.

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