“ You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go… Laura Dave
“ Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening. Laura Dave
“ Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably wo… Laura Dave
“ Knowing Finn thought I was an awful driver. Like, running of gas while getting a speeding ticket awful. Laura Dave
“ Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came… Laura Dave
“ Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you can’t save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More… Laura Dave
“ More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her… Laura Dave
“ People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married. Laura Dave
“ I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters. Laura Dave
“ What I’m trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I’m learning that the problems sta… Laura Dave
“ These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could acce… Laura Dave
“ There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it w… Laura Dave
“ Wasn't that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you'd been during the time you had been living there. The many… Laura Dave