Paula McLain Quotes

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• More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

  Paula McLain

  Loss, Talking, Sea

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

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  Space, Magic, World

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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• If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

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  Writing, Simple, One Sentence

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

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  Hurt, Ifs

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.286, Ballantine Books

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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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  Staring

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.

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  And Love

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

  Paula McLain

  Hurt, People, Missing

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

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  Storm, Want, Saved

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.81, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Running, Past, Mind

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him— but I also didn’t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

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  Running, Hurt, Knowing

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.304, Ballantine Books

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• The very rich only admire themselves

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  Rich, Admire

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.273, Ballantine Books

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• Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

  Paula McLain

  Dog, Eye, Tails

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• Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Wish

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.241, Ballantine Books

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• You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.

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  Heart, Love Is, Way

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• Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

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  Thinking, Action, Speak

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.109, Ballantine Books

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• Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

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  Book, Heart, Adventure

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.36, Ballantine Books

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• It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

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  Sadness, Thinking, Together Again

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.

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  Love, Hurt, People

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.112, Ballantine Books

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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 heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

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  Mother, Rain, Eight

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.

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  Jumping, Years, Two

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

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  Hurt, Hate, Way

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• She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

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  Beautiful, Moving, Talking

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.

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  Together, Lucky, Enough

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

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  Men, Eight, Long

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.27, Ballantine Books

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• I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

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  Sea, Looks, Made

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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