Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame Quotes

“...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which way the stems unfurl, but if you help them climb you get the pleasure of watching them flourish.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“Old age can make us feel like we need to live a smaller life, but Jenny has shown that our dreams have a place at every stage of our journey . . . that they can be achieved because of our age, and not in spite of it.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“Over the years you will both inevitably change but you will always have one thing in common, and that is that you’re both only human, so try to be kind.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“It’s strange, she thought, how recipes outlive the people that wrote them and yet they almost bring a part of that person back to life, as if a tiny piece of their soul lives in those instructions.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“Try to be led by hope, rather than fear”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner’s changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It’s a bit like growing roses—you don’t get to choose exactly which way the stems unfurl, but if you help them climb you get the pleasure of watching them flourish.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“Poppy thought about this for a moment. “You shouldn’t keep secrets.”
“And why’s that?”
“Because it makes them grow bigger,”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“It’s very sad, but there is little point in dwelling on the things we can do nothing about”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“I’m still changing. We are, after all, jurist a sum total of all of our experiences, walking around in a pair of shoes…”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“Hovering her pencil above the fan of pristine pages, she savoured the musk of fresh paper”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“she longed for home, to hide the part of her that had been seen. •”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“I realize now that I’ve done a terrible thing, that in losing my right to choose, I’ve robbed you of yours, and I will never forgive myself for that, Bernard… You would have made a wonderful father.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“She would never be able to comprehend the strange borrowed time that you experience before bad news hits; the minutes, hours, sometimes days where you reside in a bubble of ignorance, a place where small things still matter, before it is pierced by the needle of perspective.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“Well, I know that you can’t have one without the other,” he said, “and we’ll only be grieving for something which has been our greatest joy.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

“In many ways, she considered their relationship her proudest recipe and one which had been tweaked and modified over the course of a lifetime as they each grew a deeper understanding of the other.”
― Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame