16 Quotes by Paula Garner

All I wanted was for things to be like they used to be. Except for all the parts that couldn't be. Which I guess, was almost all of them.

It started the way so many good things do: with bacon.

I didn’t have room inside me for any more pain. As it turned out, though, I was wrong about that.

You love someone and they leave, but they never entirely go away. You feel them there, acutely, like an amputated limb.

Maybe that’s what marriage was, in essence – an unspoken agreement regarding division of neuroses and quirks so that the bases were covered and neither partner stepped on the other’s toes.

I could never quite figure out if I needed to rescue Dara or be rescued from her.

We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn’t stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together.

So while my body was to be regarded as a temple, hers was more like a motel for transients.

You really could do it – you’re just too dumb to know it.