She Wouldn't Change a Thing Quotes

“Every day people make choices without knowing the outcome. Can you imagine, though, if you knew the outcome before you made the choice?”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“I’m not seventeen-year-old Maria Bethe. I’m thirty-nine-year-old Maria Forssmann. I’m a wife and a mother, and that will never change.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“I think most of us remember our pasts in very different lights. Even when we’ve gone through them together.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing: A Novel

“Sometimes the truth in our minds doesn’t match the truth that those around us see, and our lives become more about perception than reality.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing: A Novel

“But hope was a thief, and Maria knew how it preyed on its victims with visions of what could be, before ripping it all away.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“She was once the kind of person who had an answer for everything, but lately she’d been finding herself confused and inarticulate.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“The battle in her mind was exhausting like she was fighting a duel between two sides that were perfectly matched rivals.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“Maria wondered, for the first time in years, if perhaps there was a God listening and she should have been saying her own prayers all along.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“What would she do if she never woke up?”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“Don’t you see now? It’s important to always do the right thing, even if you have to suffer the consequences.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“It’s not the things we remember in our lives, and sometimes it’s not even the places we go, it’s the way those things and places and people make us feel. It’s the emotions that are attached to them that make us remember them.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“And now, after all those years and all her headstrong certainty that God and spirits and the supernatural were for people who weren’t strong enough to shoulder their own burdens and grief, there was a crack in Maria’s armor”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing

“No purpose is insignificant. The choices we make every day are not just about us. They impact everyone around us in ways that you can’t even imagine.”
― Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing