Hello Beautiful Quotes

“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 and Sylvie’s deaths were”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“that person is wonderful, he or she is still somewhat ready, and so are the people who loved them.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“held”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“because”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Good job, Iz,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“their youth and their ignorance of who they were and what they really wanted.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“together. He’d always assumed openness was synonymous with danger”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Julia decided to deep-clean the apartment.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“possible mistake, the tiredness of having spent weeks barely sleeping on someone else’s couch, her father’s gone-ness.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“How Leo Tolstoy had inspired Mahatma Gandhi, who had in turn inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. William”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“she liked to understand the whole arc of a story, especially when it came in the shape of a six-foot-seven man her beloved sister had brought into their family.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Sylvie would love differently. She would celebrate whoever her beloved happened to be; she would be curious about his distinctiveness and sink into a love that was unblinkingly honest.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“I like your mom a lot,” Carrie had said, “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

“Alice nodded in vague agreement, but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day. She thought, But we don’t know any of these people. I don’t know you. We’re all strangers.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“You know what Daddy would say when he saw Sylvie,” Julia said in a quiet voice. Emeline and Izzy nodded, and Cecelia said, “Hello beautiful.” —”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William crossed the room to stand in front of her. He held his hand out, palm facing up. His skin was soft and warm, so different from that day. A wave of feelings ran through Sylvia. A radio dial, spun inside her, the volume loud. I love you, she thought, and the words—impossible now to deny—brought her both desolation and deep joy. William was her one. He was her heart. He had changed all the molecules inside her. Sylvie had known love would come for her with the force of a tsunami. She dreamed of this ever since she was a little girl, and her dream had actually come true. But she had known her love would be impossible, a dead end, unspeakable, because he had been married to her sister.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William was slow-moving and unable to hold a conversation until he'd eaten a thousand calories and the color returned to his face.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Julia specialized in answers. From the time she was old enough to speak, she'd bossed her sisters around, pointing out their problems and providing solutions. Sometimes her sisters found this irritating, but they would also admit that having a "master troubleshooter" in their own home was an asset. One by one, they would seek her out and say sheepishly, Julia, I have a problem. It would be about a mean boy, or a strict teacher, or a lost borrowed necklace. And Julia would thrill at their request, rub her hands together, and figure out what to do.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Sylvie steered away from labels. She wanted to be true to herself with every word she uttered, every action she took, and every belief she held.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“We are not contained between our hats and boots.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“minute”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“carrel,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“The dream was now in the air at risk of the elements beyond her grasp.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“He had been her person, and they’d passed books back and forth between them her entire life.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William worked on his passing too, so he could feed the ball to the best players in the park. He wanted to keep his place on the court, and he knew that if he made the other boys better, he had value. He learned where to run to provide space for the shooters to cut in to. He set screens so they could take their favorite shots. The boys slapped William on the back after a successful play, and they always wanted him on their side. This acceptance calmed some of the fear William carried inside him; on the basketball court, he knew what to do. By the time William entered high school, he was a good-enough player to start for the varsity team. He was five foot eight and played point guard. His hours of practice with the glasses had paid off; he was by far the best dribbler on the team, and he had a nice midrange jumper. He’d”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William wanted to cup his hands again, to hold close his love for his wife, to hold close her love for him.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“To be the rocket, she had to be with her sisters, and she had to set her daughter free.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“reimagining herself. She was Julia’s wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“This is worth dying for. A driver with a firm jawline”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“his tractor beam of love at her. Charlie would have”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful