64 Quotes by Jamie Ford

If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.

Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

The hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.

All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

Some things just can’t be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can’t make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

I think I get it now. It doesn’t matter how nice home is – it just matters that it feels like home.

He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it’s how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

He’d do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.