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41 " The truth was that her photographs were an extension of who she was, what she thought, how she felt. It took perfect concentration to capture the exquisite pain of personal tragedy on film. You had to be there one hundred percent, in the moment - but it had to be their moment. "
― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden
42 " Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. "
43 " Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away. "
44 " Her father was dying. Nothing could change that. Words were like pennies, fallen into corners and down the cracks, not worth the effort of collecting. "
45 " a family wasn’t a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn’t control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. "
46 " Nina had spent a lot of time with injured or dying people, standing witness, revealing universal pain through individual suffering. "
47 " For the whole of their lives he’d been like one of the apple trees on this property. Sturdy and dependable. "
48 " Hope is a fragile thing, easily broken if handled too much. "
49 " It was all out there—the mystery, the beauty; beyond her ability to see now, but there just the same. It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw. "
50 " Možda je tako trebalo biti,možda se tako život razvijao ako živiš dovoljno dugo.Radost i tuga sastavni su dio paketa;trik je u tome da osjetiš sve,ali da se malo čvršće držiš radosti jer nikad ne znaš kad bi se snažno srce moglo ugasiti. "
51 " Ako je išta naučila od svega ovoga,onda je to da život-i ljubav-mogu nestati u sekundi.Ako ga imaš,trebaš ga se držati svom snagom i uživati u svakoj sekundi. "
52 " talking to each other in Russian, remembering the ghosts in the room. In words and looks and smiles, we honor them at last. "
53 " Nina lowered the camera slowly, feeling naked suddenly, vulnerable. Without that thin layer of a glass lens, she was here instead of there, looking at her father, who was dying. "
54 " They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride. "
55 " In rooms scented by dust, leather, and stone, she turns in the last of her father's dreams for her - that she will become a writer - she hands it in like an overdue book and takes joy in the words of others. "
56 " I’ll drink to that,” Nina said. “You’ll drink to anything.” “Indeed I will. It’s one of my best traits. "
57 " The truth was, she had never been able to understand how a woman could be capable of passionately adoring her husband while simultaneously despising her children. No, that wasn’t right. Mom didn’t despise Meredith and Nina. She just didn’t care about them. "
58 " She wasn’t quite sure how it had happened, or when, but distance seemed to be spreading between them like spilled ink, staining everything. "
59 " She leaned back against the sliding door and wondered at the vistas she wasn’t seeing. It was all out there - the mystery, the beauty; beyond her ability to see now, but there just the same. It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw. Like with Mom. Perhaps everything had been there to be seen all along and Meredith had the wrong perspective, or not enough light. "
60 " Maybe she’d thought time was more elastic, or love more forgiving. "