The First Time I Saw Him Quotes

“It’s impossible to consider the lengths a woman will go if she thinks she’s protecting her family.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“stop looking for joy anymore because you’re not going to find it. Look for purpose. That will get you through.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“Maybe, one day, we’ll bump into each other, in a checkout line or a quiet car lot, and we’ll smile like we didn’t shatter each other once— like we didn’t make an unholy mess of love. —Harriet Selina”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“For the knowledge you carry now—that you will always carry now. That we’re never safe, not when we love someone. That, one way or another, we’re always waiting for someone to disappear.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“What effort will you make to be forgiven? What effort will you keep making, regardless of the cost, to show up for the people who need you?”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“Never let fear make your decisions.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“What else is there to do? We let it go. If we are lucky enough, we get to do that. We get to believe that we deserve it.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“You said stop looking for joy anymore because you’re not going to find it. Look for purpose. That will get you through.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. —Nietzsche”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“After all, the easiest path to loving someone is when you share the most important thing together. Bailey was our most important thing. And Nicholas loved her in the same unmitigated, unapologetic way that I did. He loved her in the way that only your family can. Over time, it felt like he and I started to love each other that way too.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“True north, holding, even when everything else is unsteady. When everything is shifting away from what you can control.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“I think if we are learning anything,” I say, “it’s that nothing is forever.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“bringing”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) It’s always ourselves we find in the sea —e. e. cummings”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“the smug TA reading aloud full passages from The Antichrist that went right over Owen’s head.”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“My dear friend”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“That maybe, at the end of the day, it’s not even about forgiveness. Or, at least, it’s not only about forgiveness. It’s about something deeper than that. Deeper than any limited understanding of being angry or hurt or deceived. Deeper than any understanding we may have of what we’ve gotten right and wrong. It’s about our effort. The effort is the thing, isn’t it? What effort will you make to be forgiven? What effort will you keep making, regardless of the cost, to show up for the people who need you?”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

“Maybe”
― Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him