Rachel Simon

“Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.”

— Rachel Simon

“A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.”

— Rachel Simon

“Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.”

— Rachel Simon

“Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep…

— Rachel Simon

“And she’d felt an opening in her chest where she hadn’t known anything was closed.”

— Rachel Simon

“How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by…

— Rachel Simon

“Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together.…

— Rachel Simon

“There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn’t do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the…

— Rachel Simon

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to…

— Rachel Simon

“So you never know when you can get through. p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the…

— Rachel Simon

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost…

— Rachel Simon

“Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure.…

— Rachel Simon

“He thought that maybe when you're making your way forward into your life, it just looks higgledy-piggledy, the way, if you were…

— Rachel Simon

“She’s sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There’s no reason, it’s just the…

— Rachel Simon

“She felt so lovely in his hands. She felt so loved in his eyes.”

— Rachel Simon

“But never had come first.”

— Rachel Simon

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the…

— Rachel Simon

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

— Rachel Simon

“When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in…

— Rachel Simon

“she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside,…

— Rachel Simon

“...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.”

— Rachel Simon

“... she's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's…

— Rachel Simon

“And Lynnie understood. There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And…

— Rachel Simon

“At the landing, Mommy turns to us and says, “Let’s let the puppy go pish,” so she opens the door and he…

— Rachel Simon

“Well, ain't that just the way of the world. Everything come to an end, whether you wants it to or not. All…

— Rachel Simon