57 Quotes by Amy Waldman

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Sorrow can be a bully.

Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.

...she had been thinking and listening at the same time, which made it hard to hear.

Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

In the movies Sean watched, redemption was a possession never lost once obtained. In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

For seven months, every single day, I went to the hole,’ he told the crowds who gathered to hear him. ‘I lost my marriage—’ always murmurs at this point—‘I lost my career, I lost my home, but that’s nothing.’ A pause. ‘My brother—my only brother—lost his life.’ Sometimes people would break into inadvertent applause at this, which was awkward. Sean learned to lower his eyes until it stopped.