“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.”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“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.”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea —e. e. cummings, “maggie and milly and molly and may”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“what was her life about? Did she mean nothing?”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“Perhaps every family is odd.” “You can’t build a straight house out of crooked wood, but you can build a very cozy crooked house,”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“Being a nanny is nothing like being a mother!” Sydney exploded. “You worry all the fucking time! Vigilance, intelligence, all your best intentions, none of that matters! It doesn’t stop when you go to sleep, it never stops! You are going to be so swamped if you take on Harry. You won’t sleep at night, you won’t know what to do when he gets sick, hell, you can’t even take him on a fucking carousel! It’s hard work, sometimes it’s hopeless and heartbreaking! You feel like you never get anything right! But look at you, you think you know how to be a mother!”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“This sister thing, Marina thought, is as complicated and incomprehensible as particle physics.”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“The waves had already washed away her footprints. But the tide had left something: a small creamy rock shaped like a heart, polished into a dull gleam by sand and water. Emma picked it up and held it in her hand. Her mother would say: The sea has given you a sign.”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“I officially declare the opening of the First Danielle Fox Memorial,” Abbie pronounced solemnly.”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
Nancy Thayer
Born place: in Emporia, The United States
Born date December 14, 1943
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“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships cross the Atlantic.”
― David McCullough, quote from The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
“God you’re obstinate.” It was a snarl. “Must make me a masochist that I like that about you.” Her wolf bared its canines, charmed but trying not to allow it to matter. “I only get worse the more you know me. Consider it a lucky escape.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Tangle of Need
“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, quote from The Drowning Girl
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from The Inimitable Jeeves
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