Hello Beautiful Quotes

“but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“cut himself out of his own life, the”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Waters? A little sunshine never did anyone any harm.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“He was his acts of kindness, and his love for his daughters,”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“No one had ever wanted him before. He wished he could take her in his arms, in front of her sisters”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She felt like she was spilling out of her edges and messily trying to scoop herself up at the same time.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She knew it was a strange contradiction, but despite her interest in love, weddings made her uncomfortable. They were too showy, too public. Deep love between two people was a private, wordless endeavor, and to place the lovers in fancy clothes in front of a crowd seemed antithetical to the nature of the thing.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“struggling to inhabit their own skin, a goal that would sound absurd to almost anyone else.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Under Charlie’s gaze, Sylvie had been whole; now, in front of her mother, she was porous, disappearing.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“He cradled the baby to him and whispered into her tiny ear: “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She’s hardly heard any language yet. Shall we start her off with an incantation, with some magic?”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“People with ancestors from every part of the world headed in every direction.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“What made her most excited about her future was the idea of finding more third doors. Her soulmate would qualify; he would be more than a boyfriend or a husband. He would see Sylvie, as if through a pane of clear glass, and not want to change any aspect of her.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“ended each session by saying, “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

“When freezing temperatures arrived to stay, this neighborhood would quiet, but tonight it chattered as if trying to get in its final words:”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“William had the strange thought that he might never see his parents again—that they’d only ever had one child, and it wasn’t him.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“It had expanded to fill all the space around him, which was his entire life.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Charlie had been deemed a failure in his lifetime, but almost thirty years after his death, his daughters’ love for him ran so deep that he could be considered the most successful person William had ever known.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Even though it hurt. She understood now, though, why her father had tempered the brutal beauty of this kind of life—this kind of honesty—with alcohol, and why she had always been more comfortable in the library with books than in the world with people.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Julia wondered if Rose had sensed that she was about to become a supporting character, instead of the main one, and left to avoid that fate.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“It felt so elemental and true that Julia must have unknowingly been a mother all along, simply waiting to be joined by her child.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“The only”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“...elas viviam um género de amor que parecia volumoso; exigia que falassem umas por cima das outras e que vivessem em cima umas das outras, e era uma força que parecia incluir tanto pessoas presentes como ausentes, vivas e mortas.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Sempre assumira que a abertura era sinónimo de perigo e que se não segurasse com força a nova vida que construíra, esta desmoronaria. Mas com as barreiras em baixo, descobrira que a vida se tornara maior.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Alice decided, when ninth grade began, that she was going to stop wasting time feeling ashamed of her appearance. Whether she felt ashamed or confident, the result was the same: She was very tall, and people were going to talk about it and make fun of her.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She hung the banner in Sylvie and Julia’s tiny bedroom, though, so the sight of it wouldn’t hurt Charlie’s feelings. He had been ignoring the fact that Sylvie was out of college—because it was his fault—and so would prefer to ignore that she’d had to re-enroll.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She knew it was a strange contradiction, but despite her interest in love, weddings made her uncomfortable. They were too showy, too public. Deep love between two people was a private, wordless endeavor, and to place the lovers in fancy clothes in front of a crowd seemed antithetical to the nature of the thing. No one could see love- this is what Sylvie believed, anyway. It was an internal state.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Dating is about getting dressed up and pretending you’re a pretty girl who thinks about nothing but marriage and babies. I don’t think about those things, and it makes me sad to pretend to be something I’m not.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Stop thinking about who you were when you were living the wrong life, William. You’re built for the life you are living now.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful