Dolly All the Time Quotes

“One thing about caretakers is they are never carefree. Without our cares, we’d just be takers like everyone else.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I think you were put on this earth to make everything better.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Are you saying he’s too good for you?” Gus asks. “Because I don’t think you’d say anyone was too good for me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I don’t know where I’d put my dark moments if I didn’t have her to hold them for me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I'd be honored if you'd raise your expectations for me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I want to wake up with him a million tomorrows in a row.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“It’s a miracle to teach a kid to do something new,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“The sun makes a spectacle of itself as it falls into the water.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“That it’s an act of generosity to share something as precious as your life with someone. Love’s taught me that”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“If you let me love you, I’ll never leave you again. If I have to leave, I’ll take you with me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“It breaks my heart to see him abandoned for wanting to take a few more sips of his childhood. I also know the other option is hanging out with the boys in his class who are still trading Pokémon cards. He’s caught between a rock and a nerd place.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“There is no quicker way to wrap someone in love than by creaming sugar and butter and flour.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Loving Stewart has given me new eyes toward what’s possible—to be put first, to be backed up. That it’s worth moving through the chest-pinching vulnerability of asking for help. That it’s an act of generosity to share something as precious as your life with someone.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I love the way they jump around when they’re excited and lie right in the middle of the floor when they’re tired. They’re just so connected to themselves. And they’ll tell you anything. They totally appreciate you and they never lie. That’s actually the best thing.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“sometimes it’s easier to take care of things than it is to ask for help.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I think of my mother and how much she loved the careless way rich people treat valuable things. If carelessness is aspirational, my mother nailed it when she walked away from us, easily her most valuable things.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I love you. And not just in your kitchen.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I am wearing everything very well. That is a top ten worst compliment of my life,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“It’s never the wrong season to set the oven to four hundred degrees, as far as my dad’s concerned”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“One thing I learned early—love is fickle”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“She didn’t ask me what I was going to do”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“he is three and perfect”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Even before we’ve gotten out of Boston, I feel as if I have put down something heavy. I can feel it in the way my shoulders melt against the passenger seat of Naomi’s car. I have gotten it off my chest. Now Stewart can stay up all night ruminating if he wants. But that’s not my problem. Stewart left, he quit. I loved, I opened up, I tried. I spoke my mind. I put myself first.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“On Thanksgiving morning, I sleep late because I was up from three to five a.m., contemplating this injustice. In the middle of the night there is nothing to clean or paint or care for. I am a fountain of grief, and it pours in every direction and never runs out. I wake and it’s already light out.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“If you let me love you”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“You’ve dug into your role so deep—this whole oh-look-I-can-fix-it-all role. You don’t know who you are without it. So we stay here”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Are you saying he’s too good for you?” Gus asks. “Because I don’t think you’d say anyone was too good for me.” He smiles at me in a gotcha kind of way and gets out of the car. How strange it would be to want all the things I want for him for myself.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“He looks younger in a navy-blue T-shirt—no collar—washed enough times that it rests lazily on his shoulders. He smiles a half smile”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“One thing about caretakers is they are never carefree. Without our cares”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Tell me what you said under the helicopter, and you can kiss me one more time,” I say. He smiles. He wants to pay me a compliment as much as he wants to kiss me. I smile back and I wait. “I said you take my breath away, more every time I see you.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time