Laura Dave Quotes

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Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Laura Dave
I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was — believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

Laura Dave
That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

Laura Dave
Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.

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We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

Laura Dave
There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

Laura Dave
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

Laura Dave
I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

Laura Dave
This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to-how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.

Laura Dave
People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They just screwed up.

Laura Dave
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

Laura Dave