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“But I knew the other part wasn’t about me, so I decide not to make it about me now. It’s never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It’s only about figuring out how to get there.” (The Last Thing He Told Me Quotes)
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Each species of wood has its own distinctive patterns and colors, which are revealed when the bowl is turned. —Philip Moulthrop”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“How do you begin to grapple with the idea that your husband is running from the person he used to be, a person whose real name you don’t even know? You want to argue that someone is getting the story wrong. Someone is getting your story wrong. In your story, the one you know by heart, none of this makes sense. Not where this story began, not where it’s going. And certainly not where it’s threatening to end.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It’s more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been. Home. When you weren’t sure you’d ever get to have one.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“I feel like I’m in one of those twisted dreams that only happen when you go to sleep at the wrong time, the afternoon sun or midnight chill greeting you upon waking, disorienting you – and leaving you to turn to the person next to you, the person you trust most, looking for clarity.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“I hear the crazy. She sounds crazy. Maybe that’s what happens when the bottom falls out, you lose the ability to modulate—to make your words make sense to the rest of the world.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“It feels like a victory that we are moving closer to the truth. But when the truth is taking you somewhere you don’t want to go, you also aren’t sure. You aren’t sure you want that win.” (The Last Thing He Told Me Quotes)
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“It’s a terrible thing to know everything about someone long after you want to.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“It’s never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It’s only about figuring out how to get there.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Maybe that’s what happens when the bottom falls out, you lose the ability to modulate – to make your words make sense to the rest of the world.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us – the people we try to love.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Part of me still wants to hold on to this one last moment – the moment where you still get to believe this is a joke, an error, a big nothing; the moment before you know for sure that something has started that you can no longer stop.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“People don’t tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Saying someone’s innocent makes you sound like an idiot. Especially when most people are guilty as fuck.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn’t give up on it just because it isn’t easy. Sometimes, kid, you need to work harder to get to a better place.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“That sometimes you find your way to the place that wants you most.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“That’s the thing about a small town, people protect their own. It takes a lot for them to turn on someone they love.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“There are parts I wish didn’t exist, parts I can’t look away from now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“There is nothing worse than losing your child. Nothing. Especially when you are someone who lives his life for his family.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.” (The Last Thing He Told Me Quotes)
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren’t so far apart – and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“This was something we sometimes did on days we got home late—on days we were too tired to get into the big stuff. We each picked one thing from the day to tell each other about. One good thing from our separate lives.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“We forget all sorts of things that no one helps us remember.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“Weekend ritual to sit on the bench together, drinking our morning coffee.”
Laura Dave
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“You can’t tell people to trust you. You have to show them that they can.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
“You learn it in the moments when everyone’s too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.”
Laura Dave
The Last Thing He Told Me
