Hello Beautiful Quotes

“the only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once?”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“When your love for a person is so profound that it’s part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin. Charlie’s”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“What had been effortless would now take effort.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“down his arm, as an example of one of his edges. “We’re part of the sky, and the rocks in your mother’s garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We’re all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is. Your mother and sisters don’t have that awareness. Not yet, anyway. They believe they’re contained in their bodies, in the biographical facts of their lives.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Hello beautiful,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“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.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“The idea was perplexing, as if a finished puzzle had been presented with another piece and there was nowhere to fit it in.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“occurred to him, for the first time, that just because you never thought about someone didn’t mean they weren’t inside you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“he’d always given them the same welcome, calling out, Hello beautiful! The greeting was nice enough to make them want to leave the room and come in all over again.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“even though Head Librarian Elaine—she insisted everyone address her this way—was only two rows away.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“The idea of love in those books—Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina—is that it’s a force that obliterates you. They’re all tragedies, Sylvie.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“He wanted to keep his place on the court, and he knew that if he made the other boys better, he had value.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“You gotta get outside and exercise, you gotta take your pills, and you gotta take care of other people.” No bullshit and no secrets went unspoken.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“You know the quote about how the only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once? I”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“It’s like she raised you to be a Navy SEAL or something, with a completely unusual skill set.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“They were both twenty-three years old. William felt at least forty—which was ancient.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“You know the quote about how the only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once?”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“God damn it, Emeline,” Sylvie said. She knew Emeline didn’t like it when she swore. “Why do you have to be so wise?” “I’m the only one without my own personal life, so I have time to watch you all.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“When”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“When your love for a person is so profound that it’s part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“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”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She’d kissed a couple of boys before him, but those boys had approached kissing like it was the starting pistol in a sprint. Presumably, the finish line was sex, but neither of the boys had expected to get that far; they were simply trying to cover as much ground as possible before Julia called off the race.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“over her head, trying to get some air on her neck. The sun was setting, but it had been an unusually warm September day. “You never go in the backyard.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the way her father had.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“rocks in your mother’s garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We’re all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“after her honeymoon. Maybe.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“had to look the word up. The definition had delighted her, and she’d hoped the girl was correct. The four Padavano sisters dressed up as witches for Halloween that year, and Charlie gleefully quoted Macbeth at them. Julia, in the height of her girlhood, with a pointed black hat on her head, knew that they were a coven of witches,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“and”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William knew, though, that reading his manuscript had permanently damaged Julia’s opinion of him. For her, his “book” had loomed large through their entire relationship: In the beginning she’d been thrilled by it, because she saw the project as a sign of William’s maturity and ambition. Over the years, she’d used the idea of it to paper over any worries she had about his lack of personal plans and goals. Julia had been counting on his book to prove that he was the man she’d chosen. And now that she’d read it, she knew he wasn’t. William had dreaded”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful