"I'd had my share of rain. My mother's……" — Paula McLain
"I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight."
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43 Quotes by Paula McLain
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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 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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