Maine
J. Courtney Sullivan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.”
“He also believed that loyalty was earned - sharing a bloodline didn't mean you had to be close.”
“even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all eternity.”
“She didn't have a single friend on earth to see her off. She had outlived them all.”
“The dogs were partly responsible for keeping her sane. The relationship she had with them was pure joy. No ulterior motives, no spite, just love and care and kindness, exactly the emotions she wanted to cultivate.”
“It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt water, she thought. The house felt eerily quiet.”
“He had been smart enough not to have children, so he would never know the peculiar sensation of caring terribly, insanely, for a person over whom you had no control; a person who was your responsibility yet no longer had to answer to you. This”
“Beyond those was a stretch of sand and miles of dark blue sea. You couldn't make out a thing on the other side. As a little girl, Maggie believed that the world dropped off out there, that if you swam far enough you might fall into a starry sky.”
“As far as she had seen, Maggie explained, what made people and pleased them, and threatened to ultimately ruin them, was love. Not romantic love necessarily, but the love of something, the thing that defined your life. Her mother was in love with booze. While other people might have a glass or two of wine with dinner because they liked it well enough, Kathleen loved the stuff, and so it destroyed her. Her uncle Patrick and aunt Ann Marie loved status, money, appearance—that would wreck them one day, if it hadn’t already. Maggie”
“And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.”
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Book Keywords:
disappointment, imagination, dreams, acceptance, expectations, life, let-down
