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Eight Hundred Grapes QUOTES

Eight Hundred Grapes QUOTES

1 " You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn’t an argument to finish the bottle, I don’t know what is. —Anonymous "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

2 " Even if things didn’t always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

3 " People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They screw up." -Bobby "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

4 " Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

5 " But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you" -Jen "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

6 " It’s weird to live somewhere where you can’t see the stars. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

7 " Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

8 " Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

9 " I stopped paying attention to her. I stopped doing the things that someone does for the person he loves. Because I was tired. Because other things always seemed to matter a little bit more.” He "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

10 " My father never measured success the way he did - reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life - what you needed to be happy" -Georgia "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

11 " In physics: It’s called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

12 " Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it’d be called something else. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

13 " Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn’t test the people we love,” he said. “We do, but it’s shitty and ultimately, regardless of what they did or didn’t do, we’re the ones who feel like we failed. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

14 " Be careful what you give up. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

15 " going to find what he was looking for there. “Would you feel better if I told you I had some great photography opportunities "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

16 " Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else" - Jacob "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

17 " car. I headed down CA-116—the winding road "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

18 " saw me. And it seemed like he was going to do the right thing. But then slowly, evenly, he shook his head. “Your father is welcome to stay on and help run the vineyard. He knows that we would love to have him. He knows that was our preference.” I stared at him in disbelief. “Wow, just when I thought you might understand. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

19 " Knowing Finn thought I was an awful driver. Like, running of gas while getting a speeding ticket awful. "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes

20 " I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falling apart, and maybe coming together in a greater way than I could have hoped for. You couldn't always work so hard to fix it. Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to" -Georgia "

― Laura Dave , Eight Hundred Grapes