Along the Infinite Sea Quotes

“One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“A clean break, like an amputation. Eventually, you realized you could survive without all your limbs, that you could function and even thrive, because human beings were designed to take a battering. And though you weren't whole, you at least had a son. And though it sometimes seemed as if your heart had stopped beating, you at least knew that somewhere in the world, another heart was beating for you.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“How can we bear this? I asked. (He took the hat from my hands and placed it gently on my head.) Because we have to. Because you will know my heart is somewhere in the world, beating for you.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I knew exactly where he existed in my heart; I had no idea where he existed in the universe.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Do you know what I love most about the ocean? The way the water’s all connected. The bits and pieces have different names, but really it’s all one vast body of salt water, all the way around the earth. It’s as if we’re touching Europe, or Africa, or the Antarctic. If you close your eyes, you can feel it, like it’s right there.” Pepper”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” OSCAR WILDE”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“No matter what your sins, if a dog can stand you, there must be some hope left for your soul.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I was not going to wait any longer for my life to start. I was going to start my life on my own.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Annabelle is deeply asleep. It seems to him that he'll wake her if he stays in bed--wake her with the force of loving her--so he untangles her from his arms instead and slips downstairs to make coffee, the way she likes it.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“You realize, in horror, that there is a small but inevitable hole in your heart, a hole you never wanted but perhaps deserve”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I like the peace, you see. If there is disorder, it is hard for the spirit to be peaceful.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“coffee is like doughnuts: even a bad batch is better than no batch at all.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“How we are all mere specks in time, perched on the shore, watching each other pass in turn.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I am inside your skin, he whispered. I am reading your thoughts. What am I thinking? That you have fallen in love with me all over again. That you love my scars and my sinful habits, and my loyal heart that beats for you. That you want me to make another baby inside you, so there is no chance God will put us asunder again.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I’m sorry about all this, Pepper adds. (Not aloud, for God’s sake.) But that’s the trouble. Sorry isn’t enough, is it? You could never be sorry enough.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I need a gun. I need a gun to protect us, I need two or three. And do you think the civilized Matthias has a single gun in his civilized house? Of course not. We are left to defend ourselves with our bare hands. Because right is on our side. We can put that on our tombstones, eh? Right was on our side.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“You never knew for certain if a man was a hero or a villain or an ordinary human being.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“I can look at a thing and know its worth in a second. It’s my particular talent.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Only the rich deserve the fair.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Honey, you always have a choice,” she says. “The trick is making the right one.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“Sooner or later, the house always won. Pepper used to think that she was the house. She has it all: family, beauty, brains, moxie. You think you hold all the cards, and then you realize you don’t. You have one single precious card, and he wants it back.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“All you really need to know about the Paris Ritz is this: by the middle of 1937, Coco Chanel was living in a handsome suite on the third floor, and the bartender—an intuitive mixologist named Frank Meier—had invented the Bloody Mary sixteen summers earlier to cure a Hemingway hangover.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“If you simply go on having passionate affairs, you never have to give it up. It’s like being in love constantly, for ever and ever, only with different people.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“We can’t all be Einstein, can we? The world need brawn as well as brain. And the girls certainly don’t mind, do they? I mean, what self-respecting woman wants a man hanging around who’s smarter than she is?”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea

“You know where you stand with a woman, when you have just made love to her after a long absence. She knows where she stands with you. You can go to sleep happy, listening to each other's heartbeats, because you know her again and she knows you, because you are no longer strangers, and you will work everything out in the morning, over hot coffee and a good smoke.”
― Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea