Laura Dave Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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