The Wedding Veil Quotes
"Sometimes my mom drove me batty, but I loved her dearly."
"I wondered what it would have been like to draw the plans for the massive arched windows inset in this beautiful brick."
"Not because she loved him; nothing as frivolous as that."
"It was her greatest wish to be of service to the world."
"I have to protect him. I have to fix him. I had fixed him."
"You will live in a castle with many acres to roam."
"It sends the message that I love my granddaughter more than I love my reputation."
"You have Aunt Pauline, Aunt Natalie, and Aunt Susan to look after you, sweetheart. But I promise, nothing’s going to happen to me."
"I know, Nelly. But Daddy spent so much time, money, and energy designing the mausoleum that I know it’s what he would have wanted. His family is in the mausoleum, and he should be too."
"It would have been better if we had all died on the Titanic."
"Your mother saved us," he had told Cornelia. "You must listen to her because she always knows best."
"Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return."
"A man is created by stories," George had told Edith once.
"Dear George, please help me," she said as she opened the door to the village’s hospital.
"Barbara, you haven’t changed one bit," Miles said. "I would know you anywhere."
"Buy a forget-me-not and save a Belgian baby," Bunchy chimed in.
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"You simply cannot predict who you will fall in love with."
"I don’t know what it’s like to be the grandson of a marquess, but being a Vanderbilt can be lonely."
"Sometimes safety is the disease, not the cure."
"I’m not sure I can help you unpack that problem unless you tell me why you quit in the first place."
"Even after all these years, there was still something there."
"I’ll manage the farm, oversee the dairy. I’ll work with your mother and the lawyers and the estate managers and superintendents to ensure that Biltmore lives to see another generation."
"I have truly savored and enjoyed every moment I have held the position, but it’s time to move on."
"I’m not going to waste time taking my coat off, you know. I’m not living one more minute not married to you."
"There is no logical explanation for the ways in which people enter our lives and we know they will always be a part of our hearts."
"I think you might just have a little of her gumption too."
"With all due respect, ma’am, I am aware of the world and my current lot in it."
"But what about your summer with me? What about the secrets we’ve shared, the letters we’ve written?"
"The weight of each of these supremely heavy slabs of limestone is counterbalanced by the wall bearing down on it."
"Life is short, dear one. We must make the most of it."
"It was what kept her here when she felt like she was drowning."
"It is a room that protects us, that knows us."
"You will always have a mother who thinks you hung the moon, who loves you more than all the stars."
"We go to some great lengths to preserve ourselves."
"Thank you for encouraging me to live out my dream."
"You don’t need to worry about becoming the woman you were meant to be just yet."
"We all go through a period in our lives where we feel restless."
"This isn’t a contract with me, Ms. Baxter. It’s one with yourself."
"Feeling strong and brave, feeling the need to break free from all the chains of the past."
"This veil, for one thing. Yes, it was a symbol of the women in my family whom I admired. But it was also a symbol of this great love between her parents that she could never live up to."
"I was thinking this evening about the first note you ever wrote me. It is the only personal paper I haven’t burned."
"You are my greatest achievement, my greatest love, whom I have found I could not, cannot, and will not ever let go of."
"Maybe the past is difficult to part with, no matter how it has changed."
"We kept moving forward, pressing into the future, into the unknown, into an endless night and a sky bursting with stars, full of nothing but possibility."