Audrey Ingram > Quotes

“Sometimes geography gives you answers to things that you didn’t even know were problems.”
― Audrey Ingram, The River Runs South

“the room for permission to speak no one will care what you have to say. Speak your mind; speak it clearly, especially when you are asked. Now, what is your favorite flower?”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“We have only one life, Tess. Don’t make decisions”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“In my experience, people’s actions reflect their past. I saw how my mother’s pain and sadness took root, growing all kinds of behavior that was easy to criticize. I try to ease my regrets by being easier on others than I was on my mother.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“Sometimes I think I feel more for you than you feel for me.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“I hate Tess. But I also need her in my life.” “You need your high school girlfriend? You need to grow up.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“It’s hard to admit that we drifted apart. We were too busy or negligent or exhausted to put”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“in the effort required to maintain a marriage. Because if you avoid the daily tending, one day you wake up surrounded by overgrowth and can’t find the person you fell in love with. It’s almost sadder than a scandal, because we had thousands of daily opportunities to make things better and now it’s too far gone.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“Different isn’t weird. Don’t dismiss the things that make you special.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“If you get what you want, I lose.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“If you get what you want, I lose,”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“me give you some advice. If you look around the room for permission to speak no one will care what you have to say. Speak your mind; speak it clearly”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“That summer, I learned that no one disappoints you as deeply as you disappoint yourself.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran

“on some false belief that anyone else’s opinion matters more than your own.”
― Audrey Ingram, The Summer We Ran