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1 " My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true. "
― Kaira Rouda , Here, Home, Hope
2 " It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction. "
3 " It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding. "
4 " I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards. "
5 " I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface. "
6 " I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus. "
7 " Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short. "
― Kaira Rouda , All The Difference
8 " Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends. "
9 " Infatuation, unlike love, is impossible to sustain... "
10 " I wonder if she is asking me for something, for some understanding. Some type of compassion or empathy. I’m not good at those emotions, or, if we’re being honest, any emotion except anger. "
― Kaira Rouda , Best Day Ever
11 " Kate and I had gotten into a rut, a pattern where neither of us had the energy to do anything but work and try to manage Ashlyn. We were just barely keeping it together. There was no fun, no laughter. Every day was heavy. "
― Kaira Rouda , The Next Wife
12 " I taught myself how to imitate the look people have when they are feeling sad, for example. The corners of the mouth droop, the eyes fill with water. "
13 " I explained at the time. “There’s a difference between not expressing things and not feeling them. Remember me, Poker-face Paul? It’s a blessing and a curse. I’m a guy. It’s how we are, genetically. You know, hard on the outside, soft on the inside. The delay, honey, is all in your pretty little head. "
14 " She stays at home and cares for the house and for the children. Optimally, she learns to cook, but at the very least, she sets a nice table. This is what we talked about, what we agreed to, even on our very first date. "
15 " Everything I’ve done, I’ve done for you. "
16 " You just don’t know what’s really going on in a marriage unless it’s yours. "
17 " To a certain extent, you can make choices, but so can everyone else around you. It's where those choices collide that things happen. "
18 " It’s crazy to think that tragedy gets more attention than good news. I mean, not one of my friends texted about the IPO. But I guess that’s true of people in general. They only see what they want to see, even when the truth is right in front of them. "
19 " imagined how great it would feel to jump into the water to cool off. Sure, she could just go inside the main cabin and freeze in the air conditioning. But "
― Kaira Rouda , Her Forbidden Love (Indigo Island, #2)
20 " There were even sand sharks, she’d read, so maybe she’d swim close to shore. But after living in Ohio "
