Together Alone Quotes

“She studied the airline’s frequent flier statement, detailing dates and points of departure and arrival far different from what she had been led to believe. She found certificates of deposit and money market accounts. For the most part, she was dispassionate,”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself

“Doug’s office was a Pandora’s box that, once opened, gushed with condemning information. Emily was nearly as stunned by the ease of her access to it, as by its quantity. He hadn’t camouflaged anything. It was all there for the taking. Apparently it hadn’t occurred to the bastard that she would look.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself

“I was just about to call out to him when a woman followed him out of the townhouse. She was carrying a little boy. As I stood there watching, my father took the little boy from her and held him. He wrapped his other arm around the woman.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself

“She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and its spontaneity. He was amazed at how easily it had come.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself

“He had forgotten that children were miracles—and it didn’t matter that he had originally wanted to wait longer before having a child, he had been in the delivery room when Julia was born. He knew the awe that came with the emergence of a fully formed, perfectly functioning, miniature human being that he had helped make.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself

“Still there were times, as Jill whirled through her final preparations, when Emily stood watching her, wondering where the years had gone, wishing them back.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself

“She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Together Alone: A Heartfelt Drama Romance of Friendship, Loss, and the Hardest Lesson—Loving Yourself