"Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed……" — Paula McLain
"Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories."
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43 Quotes by Paula McLain
Paula McLain has 43 quotes on this site.
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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…
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But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on…
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I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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