An Invincible Summer Quotes

“In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that . . . In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. —Albert Camus”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“me,”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“Friendship is complicated, Maggie thought. Families are complicated. Love is complicated.”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“Hindsight’s a bitch, isn’t it?”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“she had no regrets in the way her life had turned out. She’d always believed things turned out the way they were meant to.”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“Did her daughters really think they had a right to know everything about her past? What was it about discovering the truth that had made them both so indignant?”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“And think before you act because you’ll have to take responsibility for your actions.”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“Oh, buying a vacation house somewhere near the water. Writing a novel. Taking a photography class. Brushing up on my sailing skills. Traveling. Spain. Egypt. Spending a summer in Tuscany.” She”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“Funny how sometimes time and memory fed off each other, how some years flashed by in a hazy fast-forward blur, while others passed with such clarity, in slow motion and excruciatingly detailed.”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

“She had only one really cool find through her research, but it was a beauty. Lily Mullin, their father’s Irish immigrant maternal great-grandmother, had been a cook at the home of one of Philadelphia’s most prominent families. She’d disappeared from the household at the next census, but Natalie later discovered her in the home of her great-great-grandfather, John McKeller—as his wife. How, Natalie mused, did one rise from a young cook’s apprentice—sixteen years old!—to become the wife of a man who was heir to a fortune and years older? Whatever the story, she was certain it was a romantic one: Lily and John had gone on to have nine children, all of whom were alive to celebrate their parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary.”
― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer

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― Mariah Stewart, An Invincible Summer