Laura Dave Quotes

#1. If you're not careful, you run out of time.

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#2. She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.

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#3. Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

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#4. People don't break up because someone's family is a little ... messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

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#5. In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

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#6. There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

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#7. You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

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#8. She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.

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#9. Going to find what he was looking for there. Would you feel better if I told you I had some great photography opportunities

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#10. If looks could kill, I might have killed him.

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#11. Knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.

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#12. I stopped paying attention to her. I stopped doing the things that someone does for the person he loves. Because I was tired. Because other things always seemed to matter a little bit more." He

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#13. Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

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#14. 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 ways it brought you back to yourself. The many ways it still brought you back to yourself.

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#15. That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

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#16. From vine to finish. A single grape the start of it, this unlabeled bottle right here in my hand the end of it, the eight hundred grapes inside.

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#17. We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

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#18. I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

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#19. 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 anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

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#20. 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 will give you both a future.

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#21. Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

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#22. Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting." "And how is that good?" "Because that's the only way to get somewhere better." He shrugged. "If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

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#23. You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is. - Anonymous

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#24. We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

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#25. 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 accept.

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#26. it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you.

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#27. Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.

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#28. It's weird to live somewhere where you can't see the stars.

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#29. Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

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#30. I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that's the only thing in the world that matters. I just don't want to decide it's not that important.

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#31. A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always be there for me - as much it was exactly what another part of me wanted.

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#32. What happened the day I met your father,' she said, 'is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for worse. You have to choose what your life is going to look like.

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#33. car. I headed down CA-116 - the winding road

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#34. You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?

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#35. Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all?

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#36. I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.

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#37. We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

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#38. 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 of it. More of it to try and make things right.

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#39. Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

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#40. The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

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#41. Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan

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#42. only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.

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#43. I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was
believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

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#44. People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They screw up. -Bobby

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#45. 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 won't be.

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#46. It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way-as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

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#47. Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from.

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#48. That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.

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#49. It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

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#50. Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else.

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#51. 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 start when you want different things

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