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Then they’d get back to his Bentley and she’d remember—it’s easy to be charming when you’ve led a charmed life.
Minnie felt a pang of envy for a mother like this, a mother who greeted you with a kiss and talked in hushed, honeyed tones.
“Some things aren’t worth the risk. You risk, you lose, that’s what I’ve learned. Best to keep your head down and play the hand you’re dealt.”
“We have a saying in France, ‘À chaque oiseau son nid est beau’—the bird loves his own nest. You don’t know any other nest, Minnie. You must spread your wings and learn to fly.”
“All you can hope for is to do more good than harm in this life, that’s my motto.
“Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you’re not.”
When I meet the right man, he will believe in romance; he will get that it’s important. Life can’t just be about coupling up like yogurts in a multi-pack. There’s got to be more to it, right?”
“Don’t cry about something you wouldn’t cry about in five years’ time,”
people’s problems makes your own any easier to live with.”
“Don’t take this the wrong way, Minnie, but you let other people screw with your sense of self-worth too much.”
Life is full of times you have to turn toward the storm, and life brings many storms. Sick children, parents dying, cancer, just the challenge of building a life together and not driving each other completely nuts. You need a man who’ll turn in to the storm with you when it comes,
“Maybe I didn’t always say the right things, you know. No one gives you a manual on how to be a mother.”
“Be a good companion to yourself and you will never be lonely”—
“Life is change—if nothing’s changing, you aren’t living.”
And maybe I’m scared about having a ten and then losing it and never being happy with a five again, but if there’s a chance for a ten, I’ve got to go for it, right?”
