The Things We Do For Love Quotes
"Rain came to this month as surely as ghosts took to the streets on the thirty-first of October and salmon came home from the sea."
"When you looked at it that way, what was the point in noticing so fleeting a moment?"
"Out in the world, there were babies everywhere."
"People who had once made their living from the land and the sea had been pushed aside, forgotten."
"Every Monday, after a weekend of hard work at the family's restaurant, he'd devoted a full twelve-hour day to home and garden maintenance."
"The love they'd once shared felt far, far away, as faded and lost as her childhood."
"The past had taught him caution. He was like an animal that had adapted to its dangerous environment by being still and quiet."
"God has given you an answer to your prayers, Angela. It is not the answer you wanted, so you don't hear. It's time to listen."
"She had always been dedicated to success in her life--her family called her obsessive--and becoming a mother had been one more goal to attain."
"The memories didn't live on streets or in cities. They flowed in the blood, pulsed with your heartbeat."
"Her youth was leaving her, as impossible to grasp as the air she breathed in her lonely bed at night."
"Grief was like a rain cloud; sooner or later, if you were patient, it moved on."
"The weight of it bowed her back, exhausted her."
"I love you, she thought. Why didn't that count?"
"It's so quiet here. No honking horns, no fighting neighbors or blaring television noise."
"You'll get talked into it, she'd said, lighting up a cigarette. It'll seem like a good idea at the time."
"I'd have to tell my mom a dozen lies to get a night with you if they were in town."
"I don't want to blow it. It's time for me to stop being a DeSaria first and everything else second."
"Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead."
"He's going to college, so she needs to study."
"Maybe at some point she should have made it more important than children."
"Sometimes your life just doesn't turn out the way you dreamed it would. You're too young to know about that. It doesn't matter, anyway."
"Do not make fun of war, Angela. Chop the parsley finer, Mira. We do not want our guests to speak with a tree stuck between their front teeth. Smaller."
"For the next hour, we talked about the dance. By eleven-thirty, when it was time to go to the restaurant, Angie was laughing again."
"You act like this is the first time anyone's ever done you a favor. It was nothing."
"Some things are too difficult to speak of. He would have been my first."
"I'm going to put some sparkle on your throat. I bought it for my niece, but Mira said it was inappropriate ... There, all done."
"It was fun helping her get ready for the dance. It wasn't until later ... after she'd left ... that I started thinking about ..."
"I lost a son once," Mama said into the silence that fell between them.
"And she works twenty to twenty-five hours a week," Angie put in.
"I thought I'd just take care of the problem, you know? Be mature. But I couldn't do it."
"You should be scared. Look at me. Look at this. Is this the life you want?"
"I paid for my mistake. I'm not paying for yours."
"I'm glad I came home, Mama. I didn't even know how much I missed you all."
"Love can get us through the hardest times. It can also be our hardest times."
"You're asking how you live with a broken heart."
"Life has a way of going on, and you do your best and move with it."
"I want to be there for Lauren. She needs me."
"You're the only one who doesn't see how great you are."
"I love you more than all the drops of rain that fall."
"Some dreams simply slipped out of your hands."
"Sometimes your heart got broken, but you just held on."
"She doesn't realize she's forgiven her mom--or would the second she showed up."
"Love bangs us up a bit in this life, but it doesn't go away."
"It was you, Lauren. Don't you know that? You're part of our family."
"I wish I'd told her that. Maybe then she wouldn't have run off in the middle of the night."