The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Does letting go mean losing everything you have, or does it mean gaining everything you never had?”
“But it’s what we do, what we’ve done for years now. We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled, but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”
“Nice is the enemy of interesting.”
“There are some swims you do regret, Eleanor. The problem is, you never know until you take them.”
“Flip a coin, Eleanor. If the answer you get disappoints you, do the opposite." We already know the right answer, even when we think we don´t.”
“Every single time I see the ocean, even if I’ve been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle—its power, its blueness always just as overwhelming. Like falling in love.”
“There is no such thing as unforgiveable between people who love each other. But even as I'm thinking it, I know it's not really true.”
“If I could fly backward, I would," I said. To the safety of branches, to the time when my heart raced for him like a hummingbird's, 1,200 beats per second. And he said, as he always did, "I know.”
“I wonder if he would love me if he could see inside my head, the pettiness, the dirty linen of my thoughts, the terrible things that I have done.”
“Knowledge can be power, but it can also be poison.”
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