Laura Dave · 256 pages
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“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”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone.
What happened in their first five minutes?
Time stopped.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else."
"What's that?"
"Waiting.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“That was what I feared most: that he just wasn’t excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn’t sleep facing me anymore, or the way he’d stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“Someone's affection would give someone else freedom.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn’t it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“Where do we go from here? I started off this crazy weekend by trying to make sense of these moments—these moments that you know you’re going to remember—but like anything else, nothing exists without its opposite. So maybe it makes a certain kind of sense that I ended up thinking about the moments you know you’ll forget. Or, more accurately, try to remember incorrectly. How do we all learn how to do that? Relive something again and again in our heads until it takes on a slightly different light, a less truthful tone, until the memory can’t injure us as directly, until it joins the ranks of the more manageable.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that’s the only thing in the world that matters. I just don’t want to decide it’s not that important.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“This wasn’t because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to—how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“You can’t finish the things you weren’t supposed to start.”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
“newspaper at that very table, and was racing”
― Laura Dave, quote from London is the Best City in America
Laura Dave
Born place: New York, The United States
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“So love remains powerful, subjectively
powerful: one of those rare experiences where,
on the basis of chance inscribed in a moment,
you attempt a declaration of eternity.”
― Alain Badiou, quote from In Praise of Love
“During our lives all of us will experience opportunities for change which involve risk. These occasions may come at inconvenient times. We may not act upon them, but the challenge is there for us. The purpose of reincarnation is the exercise of free will. Without this ability, we would be impotent creatures indeed.”
― Michael Newton, quote from Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
“So may there be grace and kindness, gentleness and love in our hearts, especially for the ones who we believe are profoundly wrong. The Good News is proclaimed when we love each other. I pray for unity beyond conformity, because loving-kindness preaches the gospel more beautifully and truthfully than any satirical blog post or point-by-point dismantling of another disciple's reputation and teaching.”
― Sarah Bessey, quote from Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
“…young people without arms and legs. They’re the ones who had the fortune or perhaps the misfortune to survive.”
― Zlata Filipović, quote from Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
“Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
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