Paula McLain - Life Quotes

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My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Paula McLain

You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.

Paula McLain

On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all.

Paula McLain

A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.

Paula McLain