Amanda Eyre Ward > Quotes

“When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

“Is reading a sport?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

“Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward

“The most accurate way to know the future is to create it.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

“Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn’t make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

“Worrying is praying for things you don’t want to happen,”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

“as she walked back to her husband, lola thought about lying on her expensive sheets and holding a baby - their baby - to her breast. to the baby, lola would smell like a mother, and the ridiculous chandelier would look like stars. ”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, Love Stories in This Town: Stories

“Lee had never realized how hideous most of the world was until Rome.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“This was one of the pleasures of recovery: you opened the door to the pain and gnawing tedium, but joy came in as well. All of it, all of it, brilliant and clean and true.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Martyrdom was a hard habit to break.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor. ”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, Love Stories in This Town: Stories

“Did all siblings revert to their childhood selves when they were together, or was there a way to transition to functional adulthood even while being in one another’s lives?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway. ”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, Love Stories in This Town: Stories

“her insomnia likely had roots in her fear of losing control.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Charlotte sipped her coffee and gazed at the rocky coastline, the deep green hills, clouds like smoke. How lonely it was to have no witness to her life. No one to guard her passage into slumber, no one to know that she had made it through the night.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“She’d been doing the same things for so long: auditioning, seducing, preening. What if she turned it around, and let the world try to win her for a change?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“Your “family of origin” (as her online therapist called them) could be toxic and strange, but they were yours: you could not escape them, for better or worse.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“What he needs,” Lee said, “is a father who supports him!” She’d been thirteen, the bravest girl in the world,”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“It was only recently that she was beginning to admit to herself how much it hurt to have to be fine.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“When you're small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

“Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood and her bright future. But she was beginning to see that the camaraderie with her brother and sister, the yummy microwaved dinners, the way they'd crowd around the small TV to watch Family Feud, yelling out answers--in some ways, those days had been wonderful. She promised herself now: it will be okay.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola.

come here, said emmett. ”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, Love Stories in This Town: Stories

“The color of a polar bear’s skin? Is? In fact? BLACK!” she cried. Some passengers cheered, but several looked crestfallen. “I’m so sorry,” an older man implored his wife. “I really did think it was pink.” “I know you did, honey,” said his wife morosely, peering into her empty glass.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“We’ve realized something about ourselves too: we are just as tempted by the propensity to make everyone feel happy as we are by booze.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

“Although she hadn’t realized it at the time, Charlotte now understood that proximity mattered.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“I was surrounded by people. A hundred men, some women, my brother, Ernesto. No one did anything as the man pulled my pants down. No one intervened—not even God—as”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Same Sky

“When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead. — Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost. (Ballantine Books; Reprint edition August 30, 2005)”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

“One night, when Regan had brought The Giving Tree from the bookshelf, Flora had said she didn’t want to hear that one anymore. “Why not?” Regan asked. “Because, Mommy,” said Flora. “It’s the saddest story in the world.”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

“He turned to her. “New Zealand,” said Jules. He put his hand on her knee. He was exactly the prize she wanted…or the prize she had been trained to want. Her grandmother had been so pleased. But now Gram was dead and Whitney could wonder: did she want her husband anymore? Had she ever loved him—or just mistaken security for love?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, The Lifeguards