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“All teenagers are a nightmare. And girls are worse.” (The Paper Palace Quotes)
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“At the crest of the hill two stallions backs black against a nectar wash graze on the green-tang clover, acorns to sniff out. We lie together beneath the flowering hawthorn, your white collar unbuttoned. Once, I heard the sound of wind under water, breathed in the sea and survived.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Brits always insist on acting as if weather doesn’t exist. It starts pouring rain and they just turn their collars up.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“But it’s what we do, what we’ve done for years now. We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled, but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“But this time when I pull away from him, it is agonizing. Not found, but lost. I pause, stand on the precipice of memory, wanting so desperately to fall into it, knowing I can’t. Jonas is animal, Peter is mineral. And I need a rock.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Does letting go mean losing everything you have, or does it mean gaining everything you never had?”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Every single time I see the ocean, even if I’ve been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle—its power, its blueness always just as overwhelming. Like falling in love.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Fat thighs are like a phantom limb. Years after you lose them, you can still feel them rubbing together.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“He takes my hair in his fists, kisses me. Rough, hard, unhinged. I don’t want to give in, but I kiss him back with a love that feels like drowning. The breathless desire to breathe.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“I could be hitchhiking into town with a serial killer and she wouldn’t notice.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“I have two choices. One I can’t have. One I don’t deserve to have.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“I just don’t believe in psychiatry. As far as I can tell, the only thing it’s good for is making children blame their parents for everything that’s ever gone wrong in their lives.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“I love the way library books smell: more important than regular books, a grand olden-days smell, like the steps of a marble palace, or a senator.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“I love the way trees grow up and down at the same time. I wish we could do that.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“I wonder if he would love me if he could see inside my head, the pettiness, the dirty linen of my thoughts, the terrible things that I have done.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Knowledge can be power, but it can also be poison.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Love is blind, thank god. Or at least my wife is. That’s the secret to my happiness.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Manhattan and beach are two of the greatest things on earth. But put them together and all you have is mediocrity.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Men fall asleep immediately after orgasm. Women wake up. It’s curious, that off-rhythm. Perhaps, after the exhaustion of trying to impregnate us, they need their rest.” (The Paper Palace Quotes)
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“My husband is a handsome man. Not beautiful, but handsome in an old-fashioned movie star way. Tall. Elegant. British. A respected journalist. The kind of man who looks sexy in a suit. An Atticus. Patient, but formidable when angered. He can keep a secret. He rarely misses a beat.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Nice is the enemy of interesting.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“Our parents drank gin from jelly jars and disappeared into the darkness beyond the fire’s glow to kiss their lovers in the tall beach grass.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“The best lesson my mother ever taught me: there are two things in life you never regret—a baby and a swim.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“The shit always builds up, and surviving it is the key, but this I will not learn for many years.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“The waiting begins early, I think. The lies begin early. But so do dreams and hopes and stories.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“There are some swims you do regret, Eleanor. The problem is, you never know until you take them.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“There are two things in life you never regret—a baby and a swim.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“There is no such thing as unforgiveable between people who love each other. But even as I’m thinking it, I know it’s not really true.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“There’s nothing better than bacon and eggs for a hangover. Actually, there’s nothing better than bacon. Food of the gods.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“We are not a family of cowards. You have to face your fears head on. Otherwise you’ve lost the battle before it’s begun.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
“We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled, but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
