Love and Other Consolation Prizes Quotes

“There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and forever long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we're lucky, twice in a lifetime. And when they do, they affect our gravity.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“We all have things we don’t talk about, Ernest thought. Even though, more often than not, those are the things that make us who we are.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Sometimes you need to feel the sadness, you need to feel everything to finally leave it behind, to have peace. Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Memories are narcotic, he thought. Like the array of pill bottles that sit cluttered on my nightstand. Each dose, carefully administered, use as directed. Too much and they become dangerous. Too much and they'll stop your heart.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Parents always have a story that their children don’t really know,”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“If anger is your currency, then you’re one rich bitch.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“My theory,” Maisie said, “is that the best, worst, happiest, saddest, scariest, and most memorable moments are all connected. Those are the important times, good and bad. The rest is just filler.” She pointed to the balloon. “The rest is nothing but hot air.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“My theory,” Maisie said, “is that the best, worst, happiest, saddest, scariest, and most memorable moments are all connected. Those are the important times, good and bad. The rest is just filler.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“The present is merely the past reassembled,”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Sometimes you need to feel the sadness, you need to feel everything to finally leave it behind, to have peace.
Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“My okaasan would say, 'Water is Yin. Fire is Yang. And tea is a perfect expression of both.'"
"Both?" Ernest asked politely.
"Both sides of life, hot and cold, light and dark, not as opposites, but as complementary parts of each other," Fahn said, pausing, as though deep in thought. "Life is about balancing the good and the bad, the past and the present.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“He suspected that everyone his age, of his vintage, had a backstory, a secret that they’d never shared.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Gracie’s memory was like a jigsaw puzzle with parts that didn’t always fit, but she’d found the all-important edge pieces. She was beginning to reframe her life—their life. It was a work in progress, but the image was coming together. “It’s”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Ernest had lain awake many nights and wondered. Girls were complicated, women confounding, their challenges almost insurmountable. The world was a rigged game, stacked against them. But maybe Maisie had played to her advantage”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“I guess there’s a difference between the body and the soul. You can buy a body, but the heart…” He shook his head. “The heart, you can’t even rent.” —”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“A first kiss means everything.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“A long-lost love. A living, breathing embodiment of what might have been.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Sometimes you need to feel the sadness, you need to feel everything to finally leave it behind, to have peace.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“guess there’s a difference between the body and the soul. You can buy a body, but the heart…” He shook his head. “The heart, you can’t even rent.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“guess there’s a difference between the body and the soul. You can buy a body, but the heart…” He shook”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Everyone in Chinatown seems to have a B side to his or her character---an untold story---Ernest reasoned as he lit a cigarette and remembered that one of his favorite songs was a Hank Williams flip-side record, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." That song had seemed to do pretty well. Then again, some say Hank Williams died of a broken heart.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Women settle for the admiration of men, which is worthless. A dog will admire trees all day but only respect a sharp stick. That's what Madam Flora always says. She tells us that we need to make our own way in the world and not rely on a man for anything. Sometimes that means we have to take what we want for a change.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“Everyone in Chinatown seems to have a B side to his or her character—an untold story—”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“But the most surprising difference was Show Street, the topless corner of Seattle’s second world’s fair, where fairgoers could rent Polaroid cameras to snap photos of showgirls in various stages of undress.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“reality, the Mann Act was used to prevent interracial relationships. World champion heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson was prosecuted under the Mann Act for dating white women.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“But curiously, 1909 was also the peak of Seattle’s social evils—described as “dance halls, bagnios, crib houses, opium dens, and noodle joints…openly advertised in the full glare of electric light”—a major concern for the host city.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“stumbled upon an old article about race and the AYP and how China had declined to sponsor an exhibit because delegates had been harassed at previous world’s fairs, and how ethnographic displays were immensely popular, like the Igorrote exhibit, a mock village of grass huts, which was basically a human zoo. As I kept digging, I was intrigued to learn that 1909 was also the height of Washington State’s suffrage movement. Both the Washington Equal Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association held conventions in Seattle to take advantage of the publicity of the AYP.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“stumbled upon an old article about race and the AYP and how China had declined to sponsor an exhibit because delegates had been harassed at previous world’s fairs, and how ethnographic displays were immensely popular, like the Igorrote exhibit, a mock village of grass huts, which was basically a human zoo.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“the great Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909—Seattle’s forgotten world’s fair.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes