The Lucky Ones Quotes

“When you love someone, you sometimes make choices you don't want to make. You do things to help them that you wish you didn't have to do...”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“Sometimes you slay a dragon. Sometimes you cut off its head and three more grow in its place.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“Don’t let it become a wall between you and us. Sin should always be a bridge that brings you back to God, not a wall between you and Him.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“You don't become an English major because you love books. You do it because you need books. It's a codependent relationship.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“If one could marry a moment in time, she would have married that one. That moment when the stars were laughing with her and not at her. That moment when the sand in the hourglass was on her side and the house was once again her home.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“She opened it to the middle and pressed her face into the pages. She inhaled the scent of paper, ink and glue, and if they could make a perfume that smelled like old books, Allison would wear it every day of her life.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“But they were a family, weren't they? And she'd gotten very good at lying. It didn't even feel like lying anymore. It felt like forgiveness, leaving the past in the past. It felt like mercy. It felt like moving on...And what was one more secret in this house packed to the attic with secrets? Roland had secrets. So did she. It gave them something in common. Roland might be onto something. Maybe the secrets didn't have to be a wall between them. Maybe they could be a bridge.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“She wondered at the strangeness of the day, how it had begun with death and ended with sex. But was it that strange? Her best night with McQueen, the one night she cherished most in her memories, had come when she'd returned home after attending her aunt's funeral. McQueen had surprised her with his kindness during that difficult time, hiring a car to take her there and bring her back, sending a spray of roses, orchids and lilies to cover her aunt's casket. He'd even been waiting at her apartment when she arrived. He'd wanted sex from her, of course, but that night she'd wanted it from him even more. She'd spent three days in the company of death. And sex was almost the opposite of a funeral. A funeral said “life ends.” Sex said “life goes on.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“You want me to stay so I can seduce Roland out of the monastery?” “If you don’t mind,” he said. “I’d appreciate it.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“He recited the poem to her.
"so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens"
Allison applauded, “William Carlos Williams. A classic. A very short classic.” “You know what it means?” “An ode to a wheelbarrow?” … “Dr. Williams was a pediatrician,” he said. “He wrote that while sitting at the bedside of a dying child.” Dr. Capello blinked and in an instant tears were in his eyes. And hers. “I never knew,” she said. “Wonder why he thought of that.” “I'd say he was looking out the window and trying to think about anything other than the little child he couldn't save. All doctors keep a graveyard inside their hearts for those patients. That's why I like my view so much.” He reached out and tapped the glass of his window, which looked out onto the ocean. “It comforts me.” “Looking at the Graveyard of the Pacific comforts you?” she asked. “Of course it does,” he said, gazing out his window at the dark shifting waters in the near distance. “Compared to the graveyard out there, mine's tiny. A doctor with children in his graveyard takes any comfort he can get.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones

“There aren’t a lot of them around. True psychopaths make up about two percent of the population. In prison it’s more like… fifty percent. In politics, maybe ninety percent.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Lucky Ones