Barbara Delinsky > Quotes

“People don’t cry because they’re weak. They cry because they’ve been strong for too long.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”
― Barbara Delinsky, The Secret Between Us

“There are always hurdles in life. Getting over them is how we move forward.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I’m tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“When you lose the most precious thing in your life, how do you go on? How do you not?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Just when you thought you’d reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“The trouble with waking up in the morning is that you look like who you are. That’s great if you like who you are – not so great if you don’t.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“What if the past won’t stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Silence had pounded a nail in the coffin of my marriage. But communication was key.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Men weren’t always a solution. There were times when they made things worse.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Confrontation was a great idea – unless the odds were so stacked against you that it was pointless.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Hope is the future lined in gold, my mother used to say, but I didn’t agree. Hope wasn’t the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Which is more abiding – a mother’s love or a child’s need for it?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“If you no longer have a child, are you still a mother?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Parents can be narrow-minded when it comes to the dreams they have for their kids.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Sarcasm is the language of the devil.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Searching for self implied either not liking who you are or wanting to escape who you’ve been.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.”
― Barbara Delinsky, While My Sister Sleeps

“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Escape

“I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Escape

“People don’t get what they deserve; they get what they work for.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“It was too early in the day for this kind of discussion – but really, was it ever too early to discuss matters of the heart? What if the moment passed and never returned?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Escape

“You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Escape

“I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.”
― Barbara Delinsky