A Week at the Shore Quotes

“When we don’t have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don’t need it, that we don’t want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don’t see, we don’t miss.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“We use the people we love, like when we’re hurting and angry and there’s no one else we can sound off”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Sunrise is different from sunset, a crescendo in the day’s symphony, rather than its denouement”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on,” I quote.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Our relationship was a physical one, and it went beyond sex. We touched easily and often, satisfying a need that no one else in our lives filled.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“What would my mother do? I often asked myself when I didn’t know how to handle my child’s quirks.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“remember so much. But it is never enough. Nor is it the same as what the others recall.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Life through a child’s eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“If I tell her about Ronald Doe, I’ll have to get into the whole thing about Elizabeth’s estate, in which case Anne may jump to the worst conclusion and go to the police herself. So no to that, too.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“When we don’t have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don’t need it, that we don’t want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don’t see, we don’t miss. Then, as Paul said, something happens,”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Because life isn’t static,” he says. “It keeps changing. We think we know where we are, then something happens and we’re somewhere else, and we have to find our way all over again.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Accept what you can’t change by changing what you can’t accept. My father may have died nearly in front of my daughter’s nose, but I won’t have her thinking the timing was all bad. I can change the narrative. Can’t I?”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“The best way out is always through,’ Robert Frost says.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Family can be a challenge,” I say, “but the alternative is worse. That’s why we’re here, Joy. My sisters and I experienced life together but differently, and we’ve been apart for twenty years. What you’re seeing now is a … rapprochement.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Memory is life experience. When we deny it, there’s a hole where it should”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

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― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore

“you”
― Barbara Delinsky, A Week at the Shore