181 Quotes by Paula McLain

"All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game."

"Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else."

"But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things."

"Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself."

"People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing."

"But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city."

"In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a cliché, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all."

"The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?"

"At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while."

"Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in."