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Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5) QUOTES

Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5) QUOTES

1 " Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

2 " You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

3 " It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

4 " You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

5 " Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. "

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6 " What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

7 " Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed. "

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8 " She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back. "

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9 " Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. "

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10 " Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

11 " She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ... "

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12 " Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. "

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13 " she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her. "

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14 " She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. "

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15 " This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. "

― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)

16 " A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand. "

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17 " Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison. "

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18 " Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give. "

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19 " Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought. "

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20 " But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together. "

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