Paula McLain - Love Quotes

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But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

Paula McLain
Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him— but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

Paula McLain
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

Paula McLain
I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

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

Paula McLain
You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you've carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You've changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That's one thing I've learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.

Paula McLain
At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

Paula McLain