Best Paula McLain Quotes
- Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not. Awfully
- Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved Everyone
- More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and… Alone
- Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the… Each
- You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to… Carried
- People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing. Believe
- All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game. All
- Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off the feelings of… Answer
- But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things. Inspirational
- I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely,… Absolutely
- Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else. Anyone
- There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's… All
- I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant. Believed
- How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud.… Absolutely
- But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city. Already Gone
- You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through. All
- I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. Alone
- Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind. Already Running