Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Quotes

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Nest and Good Company. (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Quotes)

“Bad things happened. The people closest to you surprised you in the most disappointing ways.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Company

“Everyone’s always on the hunt for a mirror. It’s basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“Forgiveness is a choice. It doesn’t arrive on fairy wings; it doesn’t descend from the sky for you to take or leave. Forgiveness is an action.” Flora”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Company

“He loved nothing more than a dimly lit bar on a sunny afternoon.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“His love for her was quiet and constant, familiar and soothing; it was almost its own thing entirely, like a worn rock or a set of worry beads, something he’d pick up and weigh in his palm occasionally, more comforting than dispiriting.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“I you want people to judge you based on the inside, don’t distract them from the outside.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“It was stupid, she now understood, to think that privilege translated to protection. To mistake privilege for grace.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Company

“Nothing was a sure thing; every choice was just an educated guess, or a leap into a mysterious abyss. People might not change but their incentives could.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“Parents are temporary custodians, keeping watch and offering love and trying to leave the child better than they found him.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn’t, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“People might not change but their incentives could.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn’t rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“She supposed she could Google, but she preferred to wonder.” (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Quotes)
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“She understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“She was open to love, but she was best at managing her own happiness; it was other people’s happiness that sunk her.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“The shelf held nothing of value and it held everything of value. It was the past they’d both endured and escaped. It was despair and hope. It was life and death.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“They marveled over how they could bring her to any restaurant and she’d try almost any food; she’d scarf down olives, caper berries, and stinky cheese and lovingly suck on a piece of lemon.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Company

“This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone else’s misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. It was such a burden, other people’s lives.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“Too often, she looked forward to the end of something—to beginning the remembering—more than the thing itself.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Company

“True patriotism, Jack believed, would have been for his fellow Americans to look inward after 9/11 and accept a little blame, admit the attacks had happened, in part, because of who they were in the world, not in spite of it.”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Nest

“Was that how every couple functioned after time? Seeing the contours of someone else’s intelligence so much more easily than your own?”
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Company