Paula Mclain Quotes

“Sometimes when you're hurting, it helps to throw yourself at something that will take your weight.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“Denys had a way of seeing everything as if he knew it would never be there exactly the same again. He understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistence or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife