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161 " I’m sorry about all this, Pepper adds. (Not aloud, for God’s sake.) But that’s the trouble. Sorry isn’t enough, is it? You could never be sorry enough. "
― Beatriz Williams , Along the Infinite Sea (Schuyler Sisters #3)
162 " Nick, "
― Beatriz Williams , A Hundred Summers
163 " I thought, I will know him always, he will father my children, we will grow old side by side. We will make love ten thousand times and plant fifty gardens in the springtime, and when winter comes we will lie together and keep each other warm, until the sunshine returns. "
― Beatriz Williams , Cocoa Beach
164 " ...I've come to understand that memory is a capricious friend, and never more unreliable than when we trust it absolutely. "
― Beatriz Williams , The Golden Hour
165 " Hesitations fatal....deliberate all you like upon a course of action, but once you've made your decision , don't for God's sake waver. "
166 " The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. —HELEN ROWLAND "
― Beatriz Williams , A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1)
167 " You know, it's a funny word, loyalty. Loyalty to what? And why? ANF especially how, that's the kicker. It seems to me that loyalty requires a suspension of logic, of truth even. Like faith, like superstition, a thing you cling to in defiance of what lies before you in plain sight. On the other hand - like faith or superstition, like love itself - where's the comfort in our world without it. "
168 " That's the other thing about moral authority: there's never any use in arguing with someone who wants it so badly. "
169 " long since given up trying to make sense of a world that refused to make itself logical. "
― Beatriz Williams , All the Ways We Said Goodbye
170 " Your grief will end, I promise you. And then you will have room for joy again. I know this to be true. Just because your life will be different, that doesn’t mean it can’t still be beautiful. "
171 " But you can't second guess yourself, I've found. You don't k ow what lies.in that parallel dimension, you don't know what fate is contained inside those infinite hypothetical worlds in which you make other choices. "
172 " About the price of pride. Once, war was waged by gentlemen. But now . . . If my opponent is no gentleman, need I treat him with honor? There are some with whom one would not sully one’s sword. "
173 " sister, I thought. And he knew it all summer "
174 " Jewish "
175 " spineless "
176 " To the true fanatic, everything and anything can be twisted around to prove what you believe in. "
― Beatriz Williams , Our Woman in Moscow
177 " Flooded, "
178 " she? "
179 " insisted, "
180 " We are all different. We are all locked in struggle with our own demons. "