The Things We Do for Love

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead.

Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?" Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.

You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time.

...This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day...

Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we're mad as hell. That's just how it is.

Love can get us through the hardest times. It can also be our hardest times.

Ever since you were a girl, you've been running for what you wanted... Now you're lost, but you're still running full speed... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur?

Some things end. Love shouldn't be one of those things.

Memories didn’t live on streets or in cities. They flowed in the blood, pulsed with your heartbeat.

Sometimes your heart got broken, but you just held on. That was all there was.

Life changes, whether you want it to or not.

She had always been a woman with laserlike focus. When she started something, there was no halfway, no easy beginning. It was this trait that had broken her.

...You know that food eases every trouble. Angie felt herself smiling. How many times in her life had she come home from school, devastated by some social slight, only to hear Mama say, Eat something. You'll feel better.

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?" Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

Angie looked at her. There was a heavy sadness in her eyes. "I wish I could make everything okay. But some dreams just pass us by. It's the way life is.

Some things in life, though, couldn’t be gone in search of. They simply had to be waited for. Like the weather. You could look on the horizon and see a bank of black storm clouds. That didn’t guarantee rain tomorrow. It might just as easily dawn bright and clear. There was no damn way to tell. All you could do was keep moving and live your life.

Things do not change; we change. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen. Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.

You know that food eases every trouble.' Angie found herself smiling. How many times in her life had she come home from school, devastated by some social slight, only to hear Mama say, Eat something. You'll feel better... 'I've been through two divorces. Food so doesn't help. I tried to get her to put some tequila in the basket, but you know Mama.' She leaned closer. 'I have some Zoloft in my purse if you need it.

It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

Conlan: "She's not Sophia." Angie: "She's somebody's Sophia.

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.

This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best and move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there’s a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day. I don’t know if that answers your question

Life keeps going. You think it’ll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don’t spend your time looking back. You don’t want to miss what’s ahead.

Adults always talked about mistakes, the cost of doing the wrong thing. She wished she'd listened now.

Your mama told me that if a girl grows up smelling sea air, she can never really breathe inland.

Some things in life, though, couldn't be gone in search of. They simply had to be waited for. Like the weather. You could look out on the horizon and see a bank of black storm clouds. That did not guarantee rain tomorrow. It might just as easily dawn bright and clear. There was no damn way to tell. All you could do was keep moving and live you life.