Pam Nutter

“Most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better... They want to hear what will make it easier.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“Which is when I understand, in a flash, what I’ve been doing wrong with her—what I’ve been doing wrong in how I’ve been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she’d understand she could count on me. But that’s not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone’s too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“People don’t tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“There are parts I wish didn’t exist, parts I can’t look away from now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me