Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.
Paula McLain
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Paula McLain
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 7
Author
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Fresno
California
Way
Absolutely
Couldn
Knew
Hurt
Stop
Hate
Ever
Hurting
Wanted
Loving
More quotes by Paula McLain
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
Paula McLain
My life was my life I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
Paula McLain
I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.
Paula McLain
All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.
Paula McLain
Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.
Paula McLain
And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.
Paula McLain
I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.
Paula McLain
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
Paula McLain
She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.
Paula McLain
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.
Paula McLain
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.
Paula McLain
Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
Paula McLain
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.
Paula McLain
I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
Paula McLain
... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.
Paula McLain
The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?
Paula McLain
Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved
Paula McLain
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.
Paula McLain
Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
Paula McLain
Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
Paula McLain