The Swimmer Quotes

“We fall in love, we marry, we start little families with our hearts full of dreams. Then the going gets tougher as the kids grow. But you keep soldiering on through various challenges, thinking it’s all still perfectly fine, considering. You’re driving the kids to soccer, still going on family holidays, everything seems normal, and suddenly you discover he’s been having an affair behind your back for three fucking years. Dangle a fresh bit of tail in front of a man, and mark my words, midlife dude is not turning away. The echo from their conversation at the Beach House reverberates through her mind. You need to treat divorce as a pure business transaction. You get the best lawyer you can . . . you take more than half his fortune . . . But despite it all, ex-wives never really win, do they?”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“There’s also a word in German, Sehnsucht, used to describe an indefinable and intense yearning for a person, or place, or an experience, or state that is unattainable or beyond one’s current reach . . . This loneliness resides deep inside every one of us, whether a person is in a relationship, a marriage, or a group, or a city—it’s a shadowy part of who we are as humans.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“There’s also a word in German, Sehnsucht, used to describe an indefinable and intense yearning for a person, or place, or an experience, or state that is unattainable or beyond one’s current reach . . . This loneliness resides deep inside every one of us, whether a person is in a relationship, a marriage, or a group, or a city—it’s a shadowy part of who we are as humans. That’s what I see in your work.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“Sometimes we think—or like to think—that we know or understand people, but can we ever truly know one’s interior landscape? Can we ever comprehend all the drivers from a past life that have shaped someone?”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“She will then launch into the importance of committing to—and achieving—small daily goals, each and every day, because consistency is the key to attaining a dream. Those who show up win.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“one should never underestimate a deceived wife’s capacity for revenge.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“And sometimes best intentions—well, sometimes the best we have to give just doesn’t work out.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“It’s a sunshiny autumn morning filled with the hues of turning leaves, a sea breeze, and the scent of freshly baked bread wafting in through the open window from the artisan bakery on the corner of Main. It’s”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“Be positive. Try not to always default to negative.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer