“It’s possible actions only have the weight we give them,” she says. “We can decide what something means.”
― One Italian Summer
― One Italian Summer
“And once out, Eleanor thought silently, you can’t put it back any more than returning a mist of perfume to a bottle once it has been sprayed.”
― The Lost Girls of Paris
― The Lost Girls of Paris
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
― The Paris Library
― The Paris Library
“some point over the years, our children suddenly decide that they have free rein to parent us. It starts slowly. A comment here, a suggestion there. And then they take over, fully and completely, as though you didn’t do a perfectly fine job raising them in the first place.”
― The Wedding Veil
― The Wedding Veil
“History, memory is by definition fiction. Once an event is no longer present, but remembered, it is narrative. And we can choose the narratives we tell—about our own lives, our own stories, our own relationships. We can choose the chapters we give meaning.”
― One Italian Summer
― One Italian Summer
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