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The Things We Do for Love QUOTES

The Things We Do for Love QUOTES

1 " The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.

Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

2 " Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

3 " You look great," he said.

It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house."

He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

4 " Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."
Student: "Prone. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

5 " Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

6 " You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

7 " Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we're mad as hell. That's just how it is. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

8 " ...This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day... "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

9 " Ever since you were a girl, you've been running for what you wanted... Now you're lost, but you're still running full speed... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur? "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

10 " She had always been a woman with laserlike focus. When she started something, there was no halfway, no easy beginning. It was this trait that had broken her. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

11 " Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"
Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

12 " ...You know that food eases every trouble. Angie felt herself smiling. How many times in her life had she come home from school, devastated by some social slight, only to hear Mama say, Eat something. You'll feel better. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

13 " Some things in life, though, couldn’t be gone in search of. They simply had to be waited for. Like the weather. You could look on the horizon and see a bank of black storm clouds. That didn’t guarantee rain tomorrow. It might just as easily dawn bright and clear. There was no damn way to tell. All you could do was keep moving and live your life. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

14 " Conlan: "She's not Sophia."
Angie: "She's somebody's Sophia. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

15 " Some things end.
Love shouldn't be one of those things. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

16 " Angie looked at her. There was a heavy sadness in her eyes. "I wish I could make everything okay. But some dreams just pass us by. It's the way life is. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

17 " You know that food eases every trouble.'

Angie found herself smiling. How many times in her life had she come home from school, devastated by some social slight, only to hear Mama say, Eat something. You'll feel better...

'I've been through two divorces. Food so doesn't help. I tried to get her to put some tequila in the basket, but you know Mama.' She leaned closer. 'I have some Zoloft in my purse if you need it. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

18 " Life changes, whether you want it to or not. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

19 " Sometimes your heart got broken, but you just held on. That was all there was. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love

20 " Your mama told me that if a girl grows up smelling sea air, she can never really breathe inland. "

― Kristin Hannah , The Things We Do for Love