Paula McLain quotes

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind. (Paula McLain)

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Paula McLain

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Paula McLain

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

Paula McLain

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

Paula McLain

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Paula McLain

You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.

Paula McLain

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

Paula McLain

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

Paula McLain

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight. (Paula McLain)

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn't ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

Paula McLain

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

Paula McLain

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

Paula McLain

The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

Paula McLain

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Paula McLain

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

Paula McLain

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

Paula McLain

But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

Paula McLain

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Paula McLain

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city. (Paula McLain)

And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Paula McLain

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.

Paula McLain

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Paula McLain

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

Paula McLain

Paula McLain

Occupation: Author
Quotes count: 25

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