Eight Hundred Grapes Quotes

“Even if things didn’t always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn’t an argument to finish the bottle, I don’t know what is. —Anonymous”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They screw up." -Bobby”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you" -Jen”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“It’s weird to live somewhere where you can’t see the stars.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“People get more work done when they don’t talk.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Be careful what you give up.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don’t feel like it.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn’t test the people we love,”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“I stopped paying attention to her. I stopped doing the things that someone does for the person he loves. Because I was tired. Because other things always seemed to matter a little bit more.” He”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it’d be called something else.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Dan: Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting.
Georgia: And how is that good?
Dan: Because that's the only way to get somewhere better. If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“My father never measured success the way he did - reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life - what you needed to be happy" -Georgia”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“I’m talking about the fact that you’re a smart, accomplished woman who has worked very hard to build a great life for herself. And you still think your main job is to make things okay for everyone else.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Wasn't that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you'd been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“...with work, you can give something the strength at the beginning that it needs later on. Before it even knows how it's going to need it.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn’t test the people we love,” he said. “We do, but it’s shitty and ultimately, regardless of what they did or didn’t do, we’re the ones who feel like we failed.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“In physics: It’s called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“You have always tried to take care of everyone in this family, just like I have. As opposed to figuring out what you want. Not what you’re supposed to want, but what you truly want.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Because that’s the only way to get somewhere better.” He shrugged. “If you fight, you work it out. If you don’t fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“You don’t give up on a family. Not without trying to put it back together.” That”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“Wasn’t that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you’d been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself. The many ways it still brought you back to yourself.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“If I were keeping count—and who was keeping count?—it wasn’t shaping up to be the best day of my life.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“It was comforting, the way this place got more beautiful every day. Wasn’t that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you’d been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself. The many ways it still brought you back to yourself.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes