The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle Quotes

“In a good family, you're loved, simply, for being you, and whatever happens, wherever you go, you will always know that you are loved. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, how beautiful, or how rich. The only thing that matters is that you’re you and that you belong, and that’s what I’ve missed.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“We are part of a circle of women, sharing the same dreams, holding hands through the centuries. They are all there, if you look hard enough, if you untangle the threadwork, peeling away the layers of stitching to find the fragments of lives, of hopes, and of love woven throughout.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“I knew that I had to be with you if I wanted even a chance at happiness.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“love you, Grace. I love you so deeply, so perfectly, that whatever the consequences,”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“But he sat looking deeply into her eyes, into her heart, and she felt as if nothing else mattered but this moment; the pitter-patter of the rain as they sat in the warm, dry sedan, the contours of the rounded hills, the sea, dark and forbidding, and the strange entwining intimacy that wound invisibly around them.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“I used to be so different as a child, and now, well, I’m not really sure who I am. Sometimes I feel as if I’m no one at all.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“Sometimes we just need someone with a fresh perspective to hold up a mirror and show us who we really are – who we could become, if we put our minds to it.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“Clothes do that sometimes. They have the power to make you into someone else. They can make anything seem possible.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“How absurd the world was becoming! People were choosing their partners not along class lines but however they liked. Everything was turning upside down.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“Beauty is such a random asset, after all. It’s just a superficial illusion that presents the holder with a mask behind which they can hide.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“Yes, that’s it, isn’t it? That’s what everyone’s looking for, someone who wants to be enjoyed and loved for who they are.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“When was it that I forgot,” she murmured to herself, “that life is for living?”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“A sudden sorrow came over her for all the lost time in her life, for all the joy that was there if only she’d stopped to let it inside.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“She knew he was right; by pushing away her grief, she’d somehow only been preserving it.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“I find it easier not to think about it too much. It makes me wretched when I remember Jack.” “But that’s the only way to truly come to terms with death. With every time we think or talk about him, we chip at the hard granite of sadness, and through the cracks we begin to see how much light he brought to the world.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“find it easier not to think about it too much. It makes me wretched when I remember Jack.” “But that’s the only way to truly come to terms with death. With every time we think or talk about him, we chip at the hard granite of sadness, and through the cracks we begin to see how much light he brought to the world.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“After the Germans occupied France, the Nazis wanted to move the entire Parisian haute couture industry to Berlin, make Germany the center of fashion. Thankfully, the French managed to persuade them out of it.” “Goodness, that would be flagrantly stealing part of their culture!” “That’s what the Nazis do. They seize what they want and make it seem like it was theirs all along.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“And everyone loves a splash of color.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“How was it wasting her time if it was useful and she enjoyed it?”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“What was it all for? A shudder of fear went through her, and she felt something inside her break. It was as if all the bravado was gone, all the upright practicality upon which she prided herself had fallen away, replaced by a hollow acceptance that the world wasn’t made up of rationality and structure. It was horrific and brutal, so fierce that it could destroy even the quietest of corners.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“It almost felt like I had too many feelings, and if I let them out they’d get tangled chaotically inside me, and I just needed to push them to the back of my brain in order to keep going.” “I know that feeling all too well,” he said softly. “What you need to do is divide what is important from the jumble, then let everything else fall gently back into place.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“chaotic street. “I’m sure she found someplace safe to wait out the bombs.” “She’ll find a”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“Physical disorders were deemed heartbreaking and honorable; emotional ones made people uncomfortable.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

“The Sewing Circle, through our nights of sewing and talking, taught me that our friends provide more than just company. They form an invisible net that is so strong and wide that it can catch any of us if we fall.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle