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Beautiful Exiles QUOTES

Beautiful Exiles QUOTES

1 " I waited. I’ve found if you can leave a silence alone, someone else will fill it. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

2 " They’re to be seen, not owned, like every beautiful thing in this world, including you. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

3 " What a girl is doing and what she is seen to be doing don’t always line up, and a girl who protests only draws attention and doubt. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

4 " himself at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. July 2, 1961. I suppose it’s what I might do as well if ever I found myself unable to write; "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

5 " Bertrand made me laugh. I suppose he was the first man who really did, and if there is anything better than a man that makes you laugh, I don't know what it is. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

6 " Nights, I danced with the Swede, and lay alone in bed with the humid air softening my lungs and my skin and my despair, invoice my gods—who all look like typewriters—to give me strength to write a book as alive as five minutes ago. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

7 " I never thought myself attractive until I grew old and could look back at photos and see that I had been, but no longer was. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

8 " but really there is so little upside to acting your age as an old woman that it would have been more remarkable had I stayed home. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

9 " It’s a thing, to write about something that sticks to your insides like that, isn’t it? It’s the only way any of us should ever write, with a sharp shard lodged between our tickers and our spines. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

10 " but I carried his disapproval in my head like a tumor. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

11 " I suppose we all bumble through life far more randomly than we like to think. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

12 " I’ve found if you can leave a silence alone, someone else will fill it. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

13 " They say hindsight is twenty-twenty, but it isn’t; it’s as fogged by the goggles we swim through life wearing as anything is. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

14 " Remember the noises, the light, the exact action that made you excited or angry or scared. Then write down the details so the reader feels your exact feeling. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

15 " Whether it’s the beads of water on the line as it tightens like a hanging rope, or the drops thrown by the thrashing fish—that’s what you need to know. Remember the noises, the light, the exact action that made you excited or angry or scared. Then write down the details so the reader feels your exact feeling. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

16 " I smiled the way a girl learns to smile to mask irritation, resisting the urge to fling his filthy beret back in his face. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

17 " Laughter is the only real way to express how glad you are to be alive when you know too much of death. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles

18 " security isn’t the heart’s true desire, that it’s the unknown we long for. "

― Meg Waite Clayton , Beautiful Exiles