Pictures of You Quotes

“Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“know,”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Always remember,” she had told him. “When you’re grown up, I want you to take your girlfriend, or your wife, or boyfriend—whoever it is you love—and you make sure they know you so well they can read your mind. You don’t even have to tell them what you need, because they already know it. If they don’t—well, it isn’t love.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“All you had of a person was what they showed you.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the
world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp
upon it. You could be generous with the love you gave, with the
care you took with others. You could follow all the command-
ments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe
you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma. The
truth was that he wasn't so sure he understood how the world
worked anymore.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Having a child is, well, it’s just profound. Even as they grow, you just stop and look at them and you keep thinking in absolute wonderment, Where did you come from? How is it possible you’re here?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Nothing stayed the same. That was scientific fact. He wouldn’t do anything to push things in a new direction, but he knew that one way or another, life eventually would.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Maybe love didn’t die even when a person did, but that didn’t mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Death made you look differently at the people you loved. Their real selves weren’t there to contradict your beliefs about them. The dead became a whole other person.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“cry. He knew that the light from stars was light that was dead already, that what you were seeing was the past, not your present, and certainly not your future.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“It is up to angels to show you signs and it is your job to decode the meaning. Above all, be humble and full of gratitude.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the commandments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“She touched his arm, making his heart skitter. It was never a good sign when they touched you. He had seen far too many television hospital dramas to imagine what was going to come next: the lowered voice, the steady gaze, the bad news.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You