"I preferred to look at the sea, which……" — Paula McLain
"I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone."
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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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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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