Laura Dave Quotes

• That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

  Laura Dave

  Ruptura, Pensamiento, Gente

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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• You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

  Laura Dave

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.108, Penguin

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• We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

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  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Jobs

  Laura Dave (2008). “The Divorce Party: A Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• Josh me había dicho hace mucho tiempo que tenía la teoría de que toda una relación se basaba en lo que ocurría durante los primeros cinco minutos en que se conocían. Que todo lo que venía después de esos primeros minutos no eran más que detalles que se iban completando. Es decir: ya sabías lo profundo que era el amor, lo instintivamente que sentías por alguien. ¿Qué pasó en sus primeros cinco minutos? El tiempo se detuvo.

  Laura Dave

  Filled In, Long, Details

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.56, Penguin

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• Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

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  Waiting, Sometimes, Whole Life

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

  Laura Dave

  Belief, Creeps, Make Sense

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• People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They just screwed up.

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  Love You, Mean, Thinking

  Laura Dave (2016). “Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Es más difícil apreciar lo que no hay que buscar mucho para encontrarlo.

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  Appreciate, Looks, Harder

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• Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

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  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.162, Penguin

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• We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

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  Way, Difficult, Turns

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.235, Penguin

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• Estas cosas... son lo que eres. Te trajeron aquí. Hasta hoy. No me diste la oportunidad de entender que alguna vez las partes poco atractivas de ti, las partes desordenadas, eran algo que podía aceptar.

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  Giving, Unattractive, Give Me A Chance

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• Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

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  Fear, Moving, Doe

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• There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

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  Confused, Lying, Past

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• There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

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  Two, Feelings

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.246, Penguin

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• We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

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  Memories, Years, Brain

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

  Laura Dave

  Believe, Helping, Wonder

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.110, Penguin

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• This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to-how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.

  Laura Dave

  Lonely, Weekend, Feelings

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• I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

  Laura Dave

  No estoy seguro

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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