Long Time Coming Quotes

“The past can’t touch you unless you let it.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Of all the places I didn’t want to live, the past was at the top of the list.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Knowing a large proportion of your fellow citizens was one thing; but when you recognized each other’s pets by name, you knew you’d never get a Red Lobster.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“way, and I could see how her timorousness”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Septuagenarian”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“great doctor was all hot and bothered? It”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“look.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“don’t understand why you would want”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“cracked a grin. Evidently, I wasn’t the only one with a penchant for childhood trivia. Why shouldn’t I have a barbecue with him? Barton’s was hardly a “date” restaurant—we’d be lucky to get a booth. Besides, he was the talkative type, and I had always suspected that my mother’s news of Wharton was filtered for my benefit. A fresh perspective could prove interesting. “Okay.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“pulled my jacket tighter”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Maybe other people found comfort in memories, but not me. Memories brought pain,”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“bag. Of course I had thought about it. I had thought of little else since signing the sales agreement. The closing wouldn’t be for a few”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“the corner by the old Piggly Wiggly building, I felt the familiar edge”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Of all”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“encrusted”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“agonizing”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“good”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“planning”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“There have been a few small”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“You reach thirty-five as a single woman, and you’re branded either militantly independent or just plain pathetic. But a single thirty-five-year-old man—now, he’s the hottest thing going. An eligible bachelor.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“what he thought of that.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“It was as though the dark part of my past had become a physical being, a black beast pounding on the gates of my memory.”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“meant action was expected. But it wasn’t too late. All I had to do was tell him”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“missing. All I knew was that whatever I was looking for, I couldn’t find it with anyone”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“been extolling for the last twenty minutes, then fixed me with a polite stare. “Is something wrong?” I opened my mouth”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“I don’t understand it either, Mom,” I answered, fidgeting. Even though my old bedroom had been completely redone, it held an uncanny power to make me feel like a child again. “But you don’t need to worry about me. I’ll be fine. I promise.” She made a move to rise, and I offered my arm. Getting up and down, I noticed, had recently become an effort for her. “You”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“The young real estate agent in the driver’s seat lifted one perfectly plucked eyebrow in my direction as she steered her Geo smoothly into the street gutter. I could not blame her for avoiding the crumbling driveway, whose variously”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“Guys who grow up with sisters are trained better,”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming

“avoiding the crumbling driveway, whose variously”
― Edie Claire, Long Time Coming