Claire Cook > Quotes

“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”
― Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch

“What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life

“What do I want? What kind of question is that? I want what everybody wants. I want someone who has my back. I want someone's name to put in the space after "in an emergecy please call." I want someone who will drink the other half of the bottle of wine so I don't. And someone to make it worth sitting down at an actual table to eat. I want someone who's dying to get home after a long day because I'm going to be there.”
― Claire Cook, Best Staged Plans

“Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.”
― Claire Cook, Summer Blowout

“I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

“Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?”
― Claire Cook, Summer Blowout

“Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.”
― Claire Cook, Life's a Beach

“It takes courage to create,' he said. 'People are afraid of embarrassing themselves by not being good enough.'
Or maybe even by showing who they really are.”
― Claire Cook, Life's a Beach

“Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.”
― Claire Cook, Time Flies

“Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars -- or say nothing! I simply can't bring myself to do anything else.”
― Claire Cook

“Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.”
― Claire Cook, Summer Blowout

“Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.”
― Claire Cook, Time Flies: A Novel

“You can try to avoid getting hurt six ways from Sunday, but it still might happen.”
― Claire Cook, Summer Blowout

“Once you got started, all you had to do was keep placing one foot in front of the other, no matter how happy or sad you were. I'd taken that first step because I'd wanted to look better. I'd wanted my clothes to fit. But it hadn't taken me long to figure out that the biggest benefit was less about vanity than it was about sanity. Walking always helped.”
― Claire Cook, The Wildwater Walking Club

“I was a lot braver when I was eight.”
― Claire Cook, The Wildwater Walking Club

“The world would be a better place if everyone just helped one another out when they needed it, in my opinion.”
― Claire Cook, Summer Blowout

“Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

“I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.”
― Claire Cook, Multiple Choice

“Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

“It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.”
― Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch

“Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

“even reflected glory can be intoxicating.”
― Claire Cook, Wallflower in Bloom

“I had a system, too, though I was pretty sure I’d ever acknowledged it before, even to myself. My closet was arranged by size: Now, Not That Long Ago, Once Upon a Time, Never Again, and In Your Dreams. I didn’t even have to check the tags to verify the humiliating range of ever-increasing numerals displayed on them. I wondered what size I’d be when I’d finally had enough.”
― Claire Cook, Wallflower in Bloom

“There were lots of kinds of men in the world. There were lots of kinds of dogs in the world. There were lots of men who acted like dogs in the world.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life

“been tumbled smooth by waves”
― Claire Cook, Life's a Beach

“In surfing, and maybe even in life, the trick is to use the calm between the waves to position yourself for the next one.”
― Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch

“I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical presence, like a Labrador retriever I could teach tricks to. Here, Dread. Sit, Dread. Roll over, Dread. Play dead, Dread.”
― Claire Cook, Wallflower in Bloom

“There also wasn't one single bit of grass or dirt outside the airport. Even the median strip was a concrete sidewalk. Where did Atlanta's pet travelers pee? Maybe city dogs just learned to use the sidewalk. We kept walking. It looked like if we crossed the road that all the cars used to get onto the highway, we might come to a planted-up area, but we also might get killed.
Finally, I just lifted Cannoli up and plopped her down on a great big ashtray built into the top of the trash barrel. "Good thing you're not a German shepherd," I said.”
― Claire Cook, Summer Blowout

“I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.”
― Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs

“If you’re not really into something, you don’t put the time in, so you don’t get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone’s gifts.”
― Claire Cook, Life's a Beach