Nancy Thayer Quotes

#1. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

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#2. Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.

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#3. You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

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#4. A good friend once said, "If you break your arm, people rush to bring you flowers, food, and sympathy, but if your mind breaks even just a little, people run away, frightened and dismayed.

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#5. If I've gotta go down, I'm gonna go down in style.

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#6. Life on earth may be limited, but grandchildren were the promise of the eternal.

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#7. It's funny, but if I had to say whom I'm closer to, who knows me better, I'd have a hard time choosing between my husband and my best friend.

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#8. She was aware of the two men in the room, both of them carrying their burden of history, their charms and flaws, their heaviness and guilt, for no adult was ever really without guilt of some sort.

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#9. question. "I don't know. I like Boston. And I like being close to my mom." "And your sisters." Arden hesitated. This was officially a first date,

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#10. Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

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#11. No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

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#12. Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.

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#13. the morning after Haley's party and

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#14. Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled.

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#15. Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs.

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#16. Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

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#17. It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

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#18. It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

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#19. I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

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#20. Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

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#21. Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?

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#22. Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.

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#23. The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

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#24. Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

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#25. Where's your self-respect? Why don't you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself.

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#26. The universe is always speaking to us ... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

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#27. The land doesn't know who owns it. It was here before owners, and will be here after, content with itself in all seasons.

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#28. they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.

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#29. No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

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