Dreamland Quotes
"I've come to accept the notion that we don't always get to choose our paths in life; sometimes, they choose us."
"The logical side of me knows that what we want and what we get are usually two entirely different things."
"As a rule I take things as they come and try not to expect or regret much."
"It's hard to say exactly. Surprises in life, meeting you…"
"I want to be known for my singing, not because I'm a hot girl who can dance."
"Everyone has challenges, and a lot of people have them worse than I ever did."
"I'm pretty sure you'd remember the moment you realized you were barefoot."
"Starting over always carried with it stress, and stress made the mind do funny things."
"She knew that neighbors might remember a woman and child hauling rolling suitcases along the sidewalk in the middle of the night."
"She reminded herself of how careful she’d been."
"Tommie slept beside her as they rode through Texas and Arkansas and then finally into Missouri."
"She hadn’t been raised to lie, she’d had no other choice."
"Sometimes she wished he would speak more, but he was a child who generally kept his thoughts to himself."
"She wondered again about the hidden powers of the Department of Homeland Security."
"She could live here, she’d thought, and the idea had made her feel almost dizzy with possibility."
"I didn’t need one. I’m singing on the beach, so I get to see amazing sunsets all the time."
"You don’t need to be nervous. I already think you’re amazing."
"I’ve reached the point where I think I might even be able to choreograph my own music video."
"I wish you could come with us to Busch Gardens tomorrow. It should be fun."
"That I do accept," she said, laughing in agreement.
"With the power out, the stove was useless, but the chocolate-covered strawberries and wine would still be cool in the refrigerator."
"Beyond the windows, the rain resembled diamond slivers in the unending flashes of lightning."
"I needed to allow myself a break now and then—to write songs or go on walks or simply sit and do nothing at all."
"There was, after all, more to life than work, and I realized I no longer wanted to be the person I’d recently become."
"Fate, it seemed, had conspired to make this evening unlike any other I’d spent here."
"Love and pain were two sides of the same coin."
"I wasn’t sure that I would have stayed on the farm, but would I have attempted to make music a career?"
"Open and hungry, her expression told me everything I needed to know: Like me, she had fallen in love with a stranger."
"The changes you made to the song were beautiful."
"You have an amazing voice. You’re an amazing songwriter. You have a gift that others only dream about."
"Then come with me. Go to Nashville when you can."
"I think you should come to Nashville with me."
"Her voice was infectious, inspiring shouts and whistles by the second refrain."
"I wish I’d brought in my guitar from the truck. Playing something—anything—would have helped me sort through it all."
"You didn’t sound too good on the phone and then I didn’t hear from you after I got home last night, so I booked the earliest flights I could for this morning and called an Uber from the airport."
"Don’t ever apologize for being a human being."
"Your aunt had a stroke—it’s got to be terrifying."
"Without her, I don’t think the farm would have made it."
"It was one of those stupid things, another car running a red light."
"I hate that I’m broken," she said on one of those occasions. "I hate that I can’t even control what I think."
"You’re not broken, Paige," I soothed, taking a seat beside her and reaching over to stroke her arm.