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Sarah Pekkanen QUOTES

1 " She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel of that glorious, curving belly under the palm of her hand-but she could still be a mother. That was the important thing. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Catching Air

2 " She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , These Girls

3 " Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt... "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Skipping a Beat

4 " What sadist had invented the concept of skiing? Kira wondered. Who was the first person to decide it would be fun to rocket shakily down an icy mountain on two pieces of metal with wind attacking your face and snow spraying into your eyes and people whipping all around, waving spiky poles like gladiators closing in for a kill? She was shocked lawyers hadn't shut down the sport yet; the potential for catastrophe was rampant. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Catching Air

5 " You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Opposite of Me

6 " But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Best of Us

7 " The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Skipping a Beat

8 " The words just sprang into my mind. Maybe I'd never stopped loving Michael, but now it felt different. I loved him despite the injuries we'd inflicted on one another, because of the bad times as well as the good ones..... Our love was richer and bumpier and more complex than it had ever been before. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Skipping a Beat

9 " Project Runway, chocolate and margaritas and suddenly all is right with the world "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Skipping a Beat

10 " Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt, "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Skipping a Beat

11 " How did you know which life was the right one for you when there were so many to choose from? "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Opposite of Me

12 " Time didn’t heal all wounds, but at least it layered buffers around them. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Perfect Neighbors

13 " People hurt each other all the time, both wittingly and unwittingly. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Opposite of Me

14 " dangerous secrets are as corrosive as acid. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Perfect Neighbors

15 " Sometimes people don't see the beauty in something when it doesn't hit you right in the face. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , The Opposite of Me

16 " ...it is as if a glimpse of your 13-year-old self briefly emerges.
That is the age when everything changes for you.
Every lifetime contains pivot points - sometimes flukes of destiny, sometimes seemingly preordained- that shape and eventually cement one's path. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , An Anonymous Girl

17 " She hadn’t just lost her husband; she’d lost an entire way of life. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , Beginning Again

18 " sick. Nothing she did mattered, because whenever anyone looked at her, all they saw was her fat. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , These Girls

19 " I think that’s all most of us really want. To feel like we matter. To know we’re loved. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , All Is Bright

20 " Every family generates its own particular dysfunction. Many people believe that once they cross the threshold into adulthood, this legacy can be shed. But the maladjusted dynamics that have been imprinted upon us, often since childhood, are tenacious. "

― Sarah Pekkanen , An Anonymous Girl