"But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the……" — Paula McLain
"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 the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him."
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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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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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The very rich only admire themselves
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More Bottomless Quotes
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
— Pema Chodron
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Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in…
— King James I
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
— Robert Peel
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation…
— Lance Armstrong
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
— John Arbuthnot
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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them…
— Daniel Quinn
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
— Joan Didion
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had…
— Willa Cather
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current…
— Caterina Fake
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