Paula McLain, The Paris Wife Quotes
I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.
He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.
There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
