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People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.
Paula McLain
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
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.
Paula McLain
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.
Paula McLain
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
My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
Paula McLain
You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.
Paula McLain
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.
Paula McLain
Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.
Paula McLain
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.
Paula McLain
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.
Paula McLain
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.
Paula McLain
The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?
Paula McLain
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
Paula McLain
I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.
Paula McLain
All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.
Paula McLain
But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.
Paula McLain
Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
Paula McLain
And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.
Paula McLain
I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.
Paula McLain
I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
Paula McLain
Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
Paula McLain