The Odds Quotes

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“as long as they had each other, they were rich.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story