Quotes by Paula McLain

Paula McLain

… and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

Apologetic

Charming

Way

A week passes but it feels as if he’s never been anywhere else. It’s one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can’t remember why any of it mattered. It doesn’t help if you’re a soldier. The effect is the same.

People

Soldier

War

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

Games

Kind

Waiting

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

Mistake

Sometimes

Thinking

And that’s when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I’m thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

Giving

Names

Thinking

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.

Eight

Long

Men

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.

Adventure

Book

Heart

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

Cities

Fighting

Trying

But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

Love Is

Stupid

Stupid Things

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn’t help but melt into him.

Eye

Heart

Nurse

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Admire

Adventure

Alive

And Love

Apologetic

Artist

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Charming

Cities

Complicated

Cures

Cutting

Dog

Eight

Enough

Europe

Eye

Fighting

Forever

France

Games

Garden

Girl

Giving

Hate

Heart

Hurt

Ifs

Jumping

Kind

Know How

Knowing

Knows

Lasts

Liars

Light

Long

Looks

Loss

Love

Love Is

Lucky

Made

Magic

Men

Mets

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Quotes by Paula McLain

Paula McLain

… and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

And that’s when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I’m thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

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.

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.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn’t help but melt into him.

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