92 Quotes by Barbara Delinsky

I can’t spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

For in the giving she received. It was what their love was all about.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

Silence had pounded a nail in the coffin of my marriage. But communication was key.

Hope is the future lined in gold, my mother used to say, but I didn’t agree. Hope wasn’t the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work – and what to do when they break.

Sometimes we do all the wrong things for all the right reasons. We can be our own worst enemies. It takes a while to get over that.

You have a fuchsia heart. And a fuchsia heart doesn’t die, it simply bides its time, taking a backseat to pragmatism, all while leaking helpless drops of color here and there. Hence, teal gables, turquoise earrings, and saffron scarves.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn’t.