140 Quotes by Elizabeth Wein

I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.

We are a sensational team.

You just have to be careful with Momma for a while,” Teo told me. “She’s broken. Like a jug with a broken handle that you try to glue back together. It looks all right, and it’ll still hold water. It’s still a good jug. But you better not ever try to pick it up by the handle. You have to wait for the glue to dry, and even then it might not hold.

It’s like being in love, discovering your best friend.

Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don’t suppose I had any idea what I ‘wanted’ and so I was chosen, not choosing. There’s glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A.

That’s why we like to make things pretty; it’s just’cause we’re so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct.

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.