The Guest Cottage Quotes

“Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Your generation does everything so fast I think you’ve forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Never trust an atom. They make up everything.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“It hurts my heart, too, sweetie, but you know what? Sometimes crying is a kind of cure. Sometimes that’s what the body and the heart need to do. It’s hard to watch, but it’s not always a bad thing.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Sometimes it’s quite enough simply to be happy.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“The Great Point lighthouse rose at the far end of the barrier beach, a tall white steeple to the sky, with a working light flashing at the top. Here was the end of the island, the great point where the Atlantic Ocean met Nantucket Sound in a froth of waves. All along the point, enormous fat seals lolled on the sand, occasionally lumbering in and out of the water, grunting and lounging like a tribe of overfed Roman emperors.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“If you believe in telekinesis, please raise my hand.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Chopin étude. At first, she rushed, hit the wrong keys, could not get the rhythm right, but she continued, and as the music unwound like a silken rope from a magic skein, she entered that kingdom that art created, between reality and the possibility of other realities, between harsh life and shining beauty, between death and the possibility of eternity, that radiant realm that nourished her soul and made her understand why she lived.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Relief and something like joy flew up inside Trevor’s chest. They give us these miracles, these pardons, so generously, he thought; they crush our spirits like crashing boulders only to hold open their hands to give us jewels.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“the ballad written hundreds of years ago in England told of heartbreak experienced then, and now, in Sophie’s own heart. It was universal, being cast away; it surpassed time and space. It was said that Henry VIII composed the song for Anne Boleyn. Another discarded wife.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.” Tears filled Sophie’s eyes. “I’ve never heard you”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“She roasted the red peppers and blended them in the food processor with garlic, goat cheese, olive oil, basil, and rosemary to make a dip to serve as an appetizer with the plate of antipasto she would put out.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“AutoCorrect can go duck itself.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Dear Algebra, stop asking me to find your X. She’s never coming back and don’t ask Y.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“But I kind of think people marry the wrong people to get the right children.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Trevor was young, at least five years younger than she was. Between an older man and a younger woman, this would seem like nothing, but it was different this way around. She didn’t kid herself. She knew what men were like. They’d go to bed with almost anyone female.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Trevor Black was relaxed, easy in his body, present but not pressing. Zack always came on strong—the blazing smile, the hearty greeting. Trevor’s hand was a bridge, not a rope to jerk her into Zack’s realm. She lightly touched his palm, and her heart leapt in her chest. Oh, good. She was physically attracted to some random young guy right in front of her children. Nice.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Geeks Do It with More Ram.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother’s lap, and as rumpled.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“If I’ve gotta go down, I’m gonna go down in style.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“The family had computers all over the house.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“These children, she thought. This generation will all be deaf by thirty.”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

“sunburnt”
― Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage