Hello Beautiful Quotes

“but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She’s trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Julia shook her head at the sight of her sister’s red lips, because this dream was bound to”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“My parents loved each other, but badly, and they were miserable. So were all the other couples in my neighborhood.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“But when someone like your aunt Sylvie dies—before her time—her roots get pulled out and the ground is ripped up. Everyone nearby is in danger of being knocked over.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn’t yet whoever she was becoming. She was grateful that her father had prepared her for this type of hard, lonely ground. Because of him, Sylvie knew she could exist outside the boundaries of her past and future selves,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“The passage of time, and the details that spun some moments into unforgettable memories and others into thin air,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William was trying to relearn what it felt like to want anything at all.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“discussed”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“He’d created not one beautiful book but different attempts at excellence and beauty as he aged and loved and reconsidered everything.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“And Whitman had rewritten, expanded, cut, and reimagined his poems across his life.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“We read those books today because the romance is so enormous and true that we can’t look away. It’s not obliteration; it’s a kind of expanding, I think. If I’m lucky enough to know love like that…”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William said, “That kind of loss… must be hard.” “I didn’t expect”—she paused—“ for it to be part of everything, every minute. I didn’t know that you could lose someone, and that meant you lost so much else.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“My soulmate would save me, she thought. He would see me, and I would feel more solid. But this brought a fresh sadness, because if she ever did meet this man, he would never have known her father.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“imbibed”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“just because you never thought about someone didn’t mean they weren’t inside you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“veracity”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“amalgamation”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“antithetical”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She would have been so happy you’re home.” “When an old person dies,” Kent said, “even if that person is wonderful, he or she is still somewhat ready, and so are the people who loved them. They’re like old trees, whose roots have loosened in the ground. They fall gently. But when someone like your aunt Sylvie dies—before her time—her roots get pulled out and the ground is ripped up. Everyone nearby is in danger of being knocked over.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She’s trying to hide all her messiness,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“You know the quote about how the only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once? I feel like everything that’s ever happened in my life is happening inside me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“According to the poet, death wasn’t final, because life was tangled into it. Sylvie and her sisters walked the earth because of”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“After a week of sleeplessness, Julia felt like a Picasso painting—her eyes didn’t match, and her shoulders were at different heights.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“same”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“They’re like old trees, whose roots have loosened in the ground. They fall gently. But when someone like your aunt Sylvie dies—before her time—her roots get pulled out and the ground is ripped up. Everyone nearby is in danger of being knocked over.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“There was a small spiky garden at their feet, and Charlie studied it. 'Doesn't hold a candle to your mother's,' he's said. 'How would you know?...You never go in the backyard.' He gave a small smile. 'I presume her greatness.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“came by, right?” When Sylvie didn’t respond”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“There was a question she needed to ask herself—a question covered with pointy brambles.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“sisters’ eyes”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful