The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers Quotes

“A book is like a woman. She should leave your bed with her hair tangled and her clothes on backward. A book without creases is a book that has never known passion.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Olivia's heart pittered. A blank page. A pen in hand. Was there anything as exciting? The endless possibilities, the potential for beauty, even genius, waiting for that breath of life.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Few of the wrong turns you make in life are actually wrong. Sometimes, you just don’t know you’re going the right way until you get there. —”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Never and forever are not opposites. They are two parts to a whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorrow. Life and death. Like monster and princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorrow there is contentment. Between life and death there is experience. Between monster and princess, there is courage. And between never and forever, there is everything.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there’s only one today. Don’t fuck it up. —Cornelius Traegar”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“I don't know what it was, but he came back a different man and I thought, at last, I'd have what I always wanted. ... He treated me with love and affection. But it was too late. That's what happens to the soul-crushing kind of love when there's too much hurt involved.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“...she was not theirs. She was no one's. Only hers. Belonging to someone else had never been a good fit for her.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Life could never be contained by words. It could only be expressed to the best of one's ability, in the hopes of capturing a tiny spark and giving it away.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Today you’re a boy catching frogs in the marsh. Tomorrow you’re an old man listening to stories told by other old men. Life. It happens just like that. —Cornelius Traegar”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“It was no longer today, and not yet tomorrow. It was now and she was, for once, content.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Something had broken inside Jennifer Bringer, before she was ever born, and it never fully healed. It let in all the demons as well as every passing, mischievous fairy.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“It settled around him comfortably in a way Alfonse had always envied, but not enough to strive for.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Had she been the one who needed salvation, or the one who
didn’t want it at all? Perhaps she was both.
Searching the passion in the creases, within the rips and tears
and worn-away pages, Alfonse conjured an image of his Cecibel
before half her face had been left on the road.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Never and forever are not opposites," Cecibel read, "'They are two parts of a whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorry. Life and death. Like monster and princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorry there is contentment. Between life and death there is experience. Between monster and princess there is courage. And between never and forever, there is everything.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Never and forever are not opposites,’” Cecibel read. “‘They are two parts to a
whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorrow. Life and death. Like monster and
princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorrow there
is contentment. Between life and death’”—her voice hitched—“‘there is experience.
Between monster and princess, there is courage. And between never and forever,
there is everything.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“A book is like a woman. She should leave your bed with her hair tangled and and her clothes on backward. A book without creases is a book that has never known passion.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Life could never be contained by words. It could only be expressed to the best of one’s ability, in the hopes of capturing a tiny spark and giving it away.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Ghoulish is as ghoulish does.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“They picked up shells and sea glass, pebbles smooth and white. The wind blew and the surf hissed warm over their toes, sucked the sand from under their soles. The rhythm, the pulse of the sea soothed and electrified.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Love is not passion, my dear. Love is sweet and good and righteous. Passion is wild and messy and dangerous.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Alfonse gave her his words, a mad jumble that didn't sound as lovely coming from his mouth as it would have flying out of the tips of his fingers.”
― Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers