"Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out,……" — Paula McLain
"Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind."
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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.
- Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
- Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
- A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does…
- But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on…
- I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them,…
- I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been…
- I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl…
- And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is…
- My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
- On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally…
- 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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