Elisabeth Dini > Quotes

“I think people just want to matter, and if you're seen, then you matter, right?”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News: A Novel

“Even the realest things are only ever a handful of moments away from being memories.”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News: A Novel

“Lying spread-eagle under the covers, I think irritably that acceptance is an overrated life skill. How do you get the things you want if you accept your life as it is?”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News

“There is a power when someone who loves you says your name, a filament of gold in the river of mattering.”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News: A Novel

“Is that naive? It's often the case with hope, but a life without it is too dark to contemplate.”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News

“If you wait until you can do something big, most likely you'll end up doing nothing. It's the same if you think that small things don't matter and so likewise do nothing. All of us doing nothing gets us nowhere. But if there's one thing I've learned, it is this: all of us doing something -- small things, good things, kind things, pure things -- that's what moves mountains.”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News: A Novel

“Can lies be beautiful things? Or are they always ugly?”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News

“Love requires us to work in that space of what we want from someone versus what is possible for them.”
― Elisabeth Dini, Bearer of Bad News: A Novel