Kristin Newman Quotes

#1. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Writing is inherently scary.

Jonathan Galassi

#3. The modern world did have a few advantages.
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ...

Lola Dodge

#4. I wanted love, but I also wanted freedom and adventure, and those two desires fought like angry obese sumo wrestlers in the dojo of my soul.

Kristin Newman

#5. For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Neil Young

#6. I began to need my trips like other people need religion.

Kristin Newman

#7. When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

John Tesh

#8. Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It's emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone. Maybe Rachel the Hasidic journalist was right: love frees you to be the person you actually are.

Kristin Newman

#9. I personally have my own idea of an efficient house. It would be totally concrete with a big drain in the middle, a large fiberglass tree for my kids to swing from and a hose hanging in the corner.

Colleen Down

#10. To me, marriage was an ending, not a beginning. A stone on my chest. A giving-up, a decision to walk away from an interesting life for one just like everyone else's. Much more "ever after" than "happily.

Kristin Newman

#11. In Judaism, the way you learn to love someone is by giving to them," she said. "The more you give to a person, the more you end up loving them. If love is just a feeling, and that feeling changes, then what? Love has to be something you choose to build.

Kristin Newman

#12. The deep feeling of oneness you have with someone when you've done all of the work on yourself you have to do to make a marriage work doesn't take away your independence. It frees you to be the person you actually are. It wipes away all that nasty ego stuff, and lets your soul shine through.

Kristin Newman

#13. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden

#14. A home run is when you've stopped having sex altogether and start a book club.)

Kristin Newman

#15. There are moments in one's life that make one realize one could be making better choices.

Kristin Newman

#16. Little leaks sink the ship.

Benjamin Franklin