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1 " Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful. "
― Nancy Thayer , Nantucket Sisters
2 " Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future. "
― Nancy Thayer , The Guest Cottage
3 " Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer. "
― Nancy Thayer
4 " Life isn't all about money, Keely. Remember what you and Isabelle used to call yourselves? Surfside Sisters? Because you would both leap into life instead of dawdling at the edge, waiting, until it was safe. "
― Nancy Thayer , Surfside Sisters
5 " Real life was like a plot by Dickens . . . "
6 " It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. "
7 " The universe is always speaking to us. ... Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more. "
8 " The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other’s weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires. "
― Nancy Thayer , Between Husbands and Friends
9 " A good friend once said, “If you break your arm, people rush to bring you flowers, food, and sympathy, but if your mind breaks even just a little, people run away, frightened and dismayed. "
― Nancy Thayer , An Act of Love
10 " Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved. "
11 " Where’s your self-respect? Why don’t you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself. "
― Nancy Thayer , Three Women at the Water's Edge
12 " Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance. "
13 " Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we’d see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs. "
― Nancy Thayer , Beachcombers
14 " Your generation does everything so fast I think you’ve forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow. "
15 " Perhaps every family is odd.” “You can’t build a straight house out of crooked wood, but you can build a very cozy crooked house, "
16 " Two different kinds of people exist: Those who wade cautiously into the shallows and those who throw themselves headlong into the roaring surf. "
17 " For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea —e. e. cummings, “maggie and milly and molly and may "
18 " Never trust an atom. They make up everything. "
19 " I think anger is often a kind of recycled fear. "
20 " Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she’s doing here, in this particular life? "
