Jamie Ford Quotes

• But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

  Jamie Ford

  Mountain, Care, Way

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

  Jamie Ford

  Beautiful, Cold, Ends

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.73, Allison & Busby

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• Hay cosas que no se pueden recomponer. Algunas cosas nunca se pueden arreglar. Dos piezas rotas ya no pueden hacer mucho de nada. Pero al menos tenía las piezas rotas.

  Jamie Ford

  Two, Broken, Together

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.248, Allison & Busby

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• Hope can get you through anything.

  Jamie Ford

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.230, Allison & Busby

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• Tuve mi oportunidad'. Lo dijo, retirándose de toda una vida de querer. Tuve mi oportunidad, y a veces en la vida no hay segundas oportunidades. Te fijas en lo que tienes, no en lo que echas de menos, y sigues adelante.

  Jamie Ford

  Moving, Second Chance, Missing

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.243, Allison & Busby

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• I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

  Jamie Ford

  Past, Trying, Sometimes

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• There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

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  Heart, Long, People

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• Las decisiones más difíciles en la vida no están entre lo que está bien y lo que está mal, sino entre lo que está bien y lo que es mejor.

  Jamie Ford

  Choices, Life Choices, Hardest

  Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

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  Long Ago, Long, Perfection

  Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.191, Ballantine Books

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• He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

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  Sweet, Bitter

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.240, Allison & Busby

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• The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

  Jamie Ford

  Library, Stores, Candy Stores

  Jamie Ford (2013). “Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

  Jamie Ford

  Forever, Goes On, Good Things

  Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.573, Ballantine Books

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• I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.

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  Agradable, Hogar, Pensamiento

  Jamie Ford (2009). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel”, p.222, Ballantine Books

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• Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.

  Jamie Ford

  Mean, Parent, Enemy

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• Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.

  Jamie Ford

  Father, Care, Littles

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.130, Allison & Busby

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• A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.

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  Beautiful, Air, Nurse

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• After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

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  Emotional, Lifetime, Stoic

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby

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• As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

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  Heart, Break, Bases

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• Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

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  Missing Someone, Hurt, Real

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.222, Allison & Busby

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