Hemingway's Daughter Quotes

“I trust you, Daughter, to manage your own fate. I would trust you with mine, but would never burden you with that one.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“only sadness was that Willie, a great favorite cat, had passed away. When Papa told me, he started to cry, and I did, too. “Papa, I thought you never cried,” I said through my own tears. I was sitting on the floor, my head on Papa’s knee. His hand was stroking my hair gently. It felt good. “I cry, Flea. Believe me, when the hurt is bad enough, I cry.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“Think of what you can do with what there is. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“finally said, “In my experience—and I’ve broken my collar bone twice and my arm twice—bone doctors tend to be a little lacking in empathy. You know, just set that bone and out the door. Writers are the opposite. They want to know everything, every why, how, and when, then they use it in their next piece. I tell Papa nothing”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. ~ Ernest Hemingway, For Whom”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“for me.” Feeling a wave of mischief wash over me, I said, “Honestly, Prill, ‘the simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me,’ so please leave.” I was quoting from The Importance of Being Earnest, because Oscar Wilde was much wittier than I could ever be.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“The job of living is surviving. Horses”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it. ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“The job of living is surviving.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last and not be smashed by it. We are all broken, Flea. That’s how the light gets in. Through the broken bits.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Hemingway's Daughter