70 Quotes by Laura Dave

In physics: It’s called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what’s actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what’s left is our memory of the memory.

It’s harder to appreciate what you don’t have to look hard to find.

I couldn’t help but wonder if that was what love was – believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count.

You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn’t an argument to finish the bottle, I don’t know what is. – Anonymous.

This is the painful part. Love doesn’t leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won’t be.

Be careful what you give up.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. – Groucho Marx.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.