Three Junes Quotes

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“... we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you grow to despise. With Stavros, she wonders if the opposite might hold true: that this quality she nearly fears - his aversion to sanctifying the past - is something for which she will someday be grateful.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“I did not wonder if what his absence would spare me was the exhaustion of a longing so relentless it had become nearly unconscious, as if I had failed to realize that the water I drank was salty, always salty.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“We’re all alive the day before we die.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“The trouble is, if you convince yourself the past's more glorious or worthy of attention than the future, your imagination's sunk.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“feel as if I’m visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best of what you have and what you wish for are briefly, tantalizingly united. Tealing”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“To love me, my family does not need to understand me.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes