The Dive from Clausen's Pier Quotes

“Lonely is a funny thing," she said slowly. "It's almost like another person. After a while, it'll keep you company if you'll let it.”
― Ann Packer, The Dive from Clausen's Pier

“What was it about fashion? Since arriving in New York I’d been nurturing this fascination, this compulsion to look at clothes. It was less about beauty than about transformation. Who would I be in a turquoise paisley slip dress and beaded sandals?”
― Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier

“Lonely is a funny thing,' she said slowly. 'It's almost like another person. After a while, it'll keep you company if you'll let it”
― Ann Packer, The Dive from Clausen's Pier

“Lake Mendota was a rippled silver, like a vast piece of silk spread out but had not yet been smoothed.”
― Ann Packer, The Dive from Clausen's Pier

“Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them”
― Ann Packer, The Dive from Clausen's Pier