129 Quotes by Beatriz Williams

Except for a daily visit with the other doctors on our morning rounds, I hadn’t seen or spoken to him. But that didn’t mean I didn’t miss him like the winter earth missed the sun.

That’s just human illusion. We imagine there’s an order to things, because it’s too awful to consider the randomness of fate.

A man never knows how to say good-bye; a woman never knows when to say it. – HELEN ROWLAND.

Why, James? Can’t a girl catch a break once in a while? Does everything have to be so damned difficult?” He slid down next to me, shoulder to shoulder. Violet’s suitcase sat at our feet. “Because it’s life, Vivian. It’s just life, we’re all out for ourselves. It’s the only way you make it through to the end. You get lucky sometimes, that’s all, and you enjoy it while it lasts.” “Poor.

This was what she couldn’t get enough of, not if she lived forever: Harry on her skin, Harry’s grateful kisses on her neck, Harry and Olive, teeming and sated, brimming over with each other, as if this house and this world had been built by God’s hands for their love alone.

Books, after all, were expensive, and it was better to eat than read. So the little shelf in Sophie’s bedroom contained a selection of volumes amassed lovingly over successive birthdays and Christmases, and the idea of an entire gilded library, old and venerable, covered with the fingerprints of one’s ancestors, never needing to be returned to it’s rightful owner-why, it stole her will!

There’s something about the smells of your childhood, isn’t there? Even when that childhood was short and flavored by bitterness.

I am inside your skin, he whispered. I am reading your thoughts. What am I thinking? That you have fallen in love with me all over again. That you love my scars and my sinful habits, and my loyal heart that beats for you. That you want me to make another baby inside you, so there is no chance God will put us asunder again.

The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all. To represent them all, not just the ones you agree with. The ones who think and act like you do.