The Bird Hotel Quotes

“Nothing stays the same forever. . . Not gardens, or love affairs. Not joy, or sorrow either. Animals die. Children grow up. The thing you have to learn is to accept the changes when they come. Welcome them if you can. See what they bring into your life that wasn't there before.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“Even when something very sad happens, even when someone dies, the birds don’t stop singing.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“Every paradise has its serpents.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“Nothing beautiful lasts forever. We need to take joy in what comes our way instead of mourning when it’s over.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“to me. “Maybe you could ask her”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“I like to think that living this way, in the shadow of an active volcano, serves as a daily reminder of the preciousness of my days. One day I'll be gone. We all will. Why worry about that? In the meantime, let's make sure the fish is cooked just right, and that the wine is French.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“when they come. Welcome them if you can. See what they bring to your life that wasn’t there before.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“this point, I want to spend the rest”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“We”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“All you can do is be grateful for what you get for as long as you have it.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“To me, a marriage is like a good collaboration”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“Nothing stays the same forever,” Leila had”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“Welcome them if you can. See what they bring to your life that wasn’t there before.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“The thing you have to learn is to accept the changes when they come.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of the freshly squeezed orange juice (...)”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“A person can start off fresh in this place,” Leila had told me that first night. “For anyone who ever wanted to escape their life, there’s no better hotel to check into than this one.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“If part of being alive is caring about other people”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“funicular?”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“must have been looking for this lake all my life.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“caldo.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“is be grateful for what you get for as long as you have it.” I set my shovel down for”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“wasn’t going anywhere else after all. I was already home.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“Relief.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“aren’t”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“You may not find what you’re looking for when you come to this lake,” she’d told me. “But you’ll probably find what you need.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“part of myself I’d nearly lost track of.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“environs”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“like a meal I could no longer consume, a marvelous”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“these birds will heal your heart.”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

“death was a part of life. When hotel guests said”
― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel