Amelia Addler > Quotes

“I don’t think you ever ‘get over’ grief. It chews you up and spits you out a different person. And then it follows you around, in a quieter way, forever.”
― Amelia Addler, Saltwater Studios

“Don’t get married,” she told me. “Don’t have kids. You live your own life. You will be a doctor!”
― Amelia Addler, The Love Payoff

“grief is dark and mysterious. It takes a long time to find your way through it.”
― Amelia Addler, Saltwater Studios

“Just before she’d begun, a silence had hung between her and the audience, like an agreement to listen, to understand. It was something she had missed so badly, the feeling of being heard.”
― Amelia Addler, The Spotted Cottage by the Sea

“Why is it we don’t know how we feel about someone until we lose them?”
― Amelia Addler, The Love Payoff

“this beautiful scene made her feel small. So small – but in a good way. It made her problems seem petite and manageable; they were nothing compared to the vast openness and possibilities of the ocean. And the wind whispering through the grasses quieted the panic in her mind; the gentle slopes of the hills promised peace and grace.”
― Amelia Addler, Saltwater Studios

“So whenever I saw an unattended phone, I called you to leave an update.”
― Amelia Addler, Nurse's Date with a Billionaire

“Having kids meant a never-ending burden of wanting the best for them, worrying for them, being scared for them. Having kids was a never-ending burden of overwhelming love.”
― Amelia Addler, The Love Payoff

“I love the sound. The rain fills all the empty spaces. It makes the world seem smaller and wipes it all clean.”
― Amelia Addler, The Spotted Cottage by the Sea

“She stood and took a deep breath, savoring the moment. Accounting wasn’t the most glamorous profession, she’d admit, but she was good at it. So good they’d promoted her right up to now, when she’d show them she deserved to be a senior manager. The new office would be nice. The raise would be appreciated. But what she desperately needed was the bonus. She’d never admit this to anyone, but she was broke. It was a miracle she’d made it this far, budgeting and scrimping to raise four daughters in the Seattle metro area, but she’d finally run out of tricks. The mortgage was overdue – the second mortgage was overdue, too – and this bonus was her only hope to”
― Amelia Addler, The Spotted Cottage by the Sea

“really.”  “I guess you can look at it that way.”  “But I guess,” he said, stepping forward, “that I would have to ask you to not hide things from me in the future.” Margie nodded. “Of course not, and I won’t do anything like that again. There are no other”
― Amelia Addler, Saltwater Cove

“I bet he didn’t have to tiptoe around romantic advances to ensure his career wasn’t beaten down like an out-of-control soufflé.”
― Amelia Addler, The Love Payoff