70 Quotes by Laura Dave

There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.

You can’t finish the things you weren’t supposed to start.

Belief isn’t supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you’re good at. Why don’t we start with that? Why don’t you let that be the entire plan for now?

Sometimes you don’t know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don’t know until it is happening.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

People screw up, you know. You shouldn’t hold it against them. You shouldn’t expect everyone to know everything you’re thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you. They just screwed up.

Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us – the people we try to love.