The Big Door Prize Quotes

“If you're going to marry a man, make sure you like the drunk version of him, too. You're marrying more than one person...That's what some couples don't realize. When you get married, you're marrying a thousand people.”
― M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize

“That may be true now, but you know what they say. A cow’s ass ain’t its head, either, until you cut it off and put it there.”
― M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize

“How can you know that your whole life will change on a day the sun rises at the agreed-upon time by science or God or what-have-you and the morning birds go about their usual bouncing for worms? How can you know? You cannot. No one can. So, then. What do you do? The answer is simple. You close the book. You look up. You see me standing here. You see all of us standing here, loving you. You recognize us. And together, into the unknowable day, we venture out.”
― M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize

“other. It meant, Douglas felt, they were instead honoring the other, depending on the other. It did not mean that they were perfect, either. It meant only that, when one of them felt petty and small, as humans are apt to do, they relied on a simple but underutilized trick to bring them out of it. Instead of trying to shrink the other person down to their size, they asked, instead, for their love to make them big again.”
― M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize

“when one of them felt petty and small, as humans are apt to do, they relied on a simple but underutilized trick to bring them out of it. Instead of trying to shrink the other person down to their size, they asked, instead, for their love to make them big again.”
― M.O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize