13 Quotes by Bess Kalb

Writing a book is just talking to yourself and snacks.

Just listen to them. Hear my voice. I’m right there, in your phone, in your bag. I’ll wait. Listen to them. I’m slipping from you. Fading. It’s terrible to fade. I could be very close. In your ear, clear as a bell, asking you to call me back.

Why should we all wrap ourselves in kitchen wallpaper just because Diane von Furstenberg married up and got handed a fashion label?

If you’re having a rotten day, go buy yourself an ice cream soda and a new hat.

I didn’t have the perfect motherly instinct, because I was mourning the loss of a life I never had a change to live. I’m not excusing myself. And I”m not saying I’m sorry. I’m just saying how it was.

Everyone needs the dress that makes her feel like she’s able to do anything she wants.

When the earth is cracking behind your feet and it feels like the whole world is going to swallow you up, you put one foot in front of the other and you keep going. You go forward. And do you know what happens if you don’t? No. Ha! Neither do I, angel. Neither do I.

To die with every memory alive. Every memory in you. Every story to tell. My story. And my mother’s story. And your mother’s story. And your story. And your child’s. And for your to live so much and then for you to die. And to leave the stories behind, to scatter them in the wind. The myths and the legends and the truth and the heart. And they’ll live on and so will I.

Bubbalah, when the earth is cracking behind your feet, you go forward. One foot in front of the other. One foot in front of the other.