Henry and Rachel Quotes

“EVERY MORNING, I wake up feeling older by so much more than a mere twenty-four hours. I open my eyes and everything seems blurry, as if I am encased”
― Laurel Saville, Henry and Rachel

“They so badly want things to be different than they are. But they don’t know or can’t make the change they seek. Then, further, they can’t let go of the way they wish things would be, and when this won’t happen, they give up on themselves and everything around them.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“Gossip is just like a bee—it comes and it goes and it stops at every pretty flower, but it does no harm unless you stop it, try to catch it, and hold onto it. Then it stings you.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“Seems to me that the important thing about a lie is not the content, but the way it is told, the spirit of it. That’s what makes people believe it.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“Children, from what I had seen, were too often the fruit of men’s evil to women. And too often, instead of hating the men like they should, the women hated the children instead.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“saw flirtation where there was perhaps only surprise. I saw desire where there was perhaps only deference. I saw seduction where there was only frankness. I saw maturity where there was simple lack of experience. I saw depth where there were only still waters. It is the curse of many a man.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“But a son—a son must make something of his mother if he is to make something of himself.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“I have too open a nature, am too trusting, too willing to see the good in others. I would go so far as to say that I find the good in others even when it is not merely hidden, but actually nonexistent.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“These past years have caused my heart to become untethered. There are no more scraped knees to kiss, soft curls to smooth back, hungry minds to feed with an opened book, a discovery in the forest, a speck of water on a piece of glass under the microscope. And there is no warm flesh to reach for in the middle of the night when the light of the full moon breaking in through the window causes one’s eyelids to flutter open.”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“drawing rooms, over cigars and brandy,”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel

“MR. GEORGE MOTHER MARGARET”
― Lake Union Publishing, Henry and Rachel