Hello, Sunshine Quotes

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. —Groucho Marx”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I think it is very common to want to reinvent yourself, to push aside the versions of yourself you wish had made different decisions. Though we are who we are—and staying familiar with the different people you have been is always the way to move forward, to avoid the same mistakes. To become the happiest version of yourself.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“In today’s world, telling the truth isn’t rewarded the way it should be. The story is rewarded. With social media, you are always selling a story about who you are. There is a cost to these small lies, to the need to present yourself in a certain light”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I was still trying to figure out what we all lost in broadcasting our lives for everyone else’s consumption. Before we took the time, you know, to figure out what we wanted our lives to add up to.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“There was that word again. Curate. “And there is a cost to the people looking at that photograph and thinking that’s how their lives are supposed to be.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“So you’re saying everyone is a liar?” “I’m saying it’s the way of the world now to display yourself. And there is no putting that genie back in the bottle,” he said. “And some people integrate it well, they find social media connective. But for the rest of us, it’s a different story. Literally. And no one’s talking about it. The cost of curating your life.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“Did it ever occur to you that if you weren’t living in fear of other people’s opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“We are and we aren’t. We try and we fail. We tell the truth and then we lie. We want to be a part of things so badly that we’ll pretend to be anyone to get into the room. And pretend to be someone else just to stay there. We want to be seen and we want people to guess. We want them to understand. We want to be forgiven. We forgive ourselves. We start again.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running, as far and as fast as your feet could carry you, from your former selves. I didn’t understand that was the surest way to wind up exactly where you started. 44 In the morning, I looked out the window, feeling foggy and damp, like I’d had a bottle of wine the night before.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“Ryan prefers the term “the story” over the words “lie” or “truth.” How do you think the human impulse toward storytelling allows us to soften our version of events?”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“Life’s too short for the awkwardness”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“Just allowing yourself to have a moment that wasn’t curated.” That stopped me. Curated. It was a perfect word for what was required of me in order to present”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I’m saying it’s the way of the world now to display yourself. And there is no putting that genie back in the bottle,” he said. “And some people integrate it well, they find social media connective. But for the rest of us, it’s a different story. Literally. And no one’s talking about it. The cost of curating your life.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“think it’s a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don’t, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“it’s a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don’t, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I think it’s a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don’t, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“occur to you that if you weren’t living in fear of other people’s opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“It gets creepy in the Hamptons after Labor Day. Like, I’m talking The Shining creepy.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine