The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers
Terri-Lynne DeFino
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A book is like a woman. She should leave your bed with her hair tangled and her clothes on backward. A book without creases is a book that has never known passion.”
“There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up.”
“Olivia's heart pittered. A blank page. A pen in hand. Was there anything as exciting? The endless possibilities, the potential for beauty, even genius, waiting for that breath of life.”
“Never and forever are not opposites. They are two parts to a whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorrow. Life and death. Like monster and princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorrow there is contentment. Between life and death there is experience. Between monster and princess, there is courage. And between never and forever, there is everything.”
“They picked up shells and sea glass, pebbles smooth and white. The wind blew and the surf hissed warm over their toes, sucked the sand from under their soles. The rhythm, the pulse of the sea soothed and electrified.”
“Something had broken inside Jennifer Bringer, before she was ever born, and it never fully healed. It let in all the demons as well as every passing, mischievous fairy.”
“Never and forever are not opposites,’” Cecibel read. “‘They are two parts to a whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorrow. Life and death. Like monster and princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorrow there is contentment. Between life and death’”—her voice hitched—“‘there is experience. Between monster and princess, there is courage. And between never and forever, there is everything.”
“Never and forever are not opposites," Cecibel read, "'They are two parts of a whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorry. Life and death. Like monster and princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorry there is contentment. Between life and death there is experience. Between monster and princess there is courage. And between never and forever, there is everything.”
“Love is not passion, my dear. Love is sweet and good and righteous. Passion is wild and messy and dangerous.”
“Life could never be contained by words. It could only be expressed to the best of one’s ability, in the hopes of capturing a tiny spark and giving it away.”
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