77 Quotes by Ann Hood

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, “I love you.” She did. She loved him. But even that didn’t feel like anything anymore.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family – my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn’t sure that was enough anymore.

Italo Calvino quote, ‘A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.’ For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.

I don’t know what I want or what I feel. I thought I wanted this. Us. But now I’m not so sure.

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.

Sometimes we pray for help in accepting what comes our way. That takes a bit of magic, too” -George.

The idea of the book that matters most,” Kiki said. “Because i think it’s like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you’re unhappy and you read, I don’t know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.