Paula McLain
Paula McLain
Paula McLainis an American author best known for her novel, The Paris Wife, a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage which became a long-time New York Times bestseller. She has published two collections of poetry, a memoir about growing up in the foster system, and the novel A Ticket to Ride...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful liars ocean
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.
paris cures
Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
war people soldier
A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.
storm want saved
Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved
complicated tied
Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
europe sea together
On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all.
rich admire
The very rich only admire themselves
space magic lavender
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
sadness thinking together-again
It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.
together lucky enough
I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.
way apologetic charming
... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.
love hurt people
I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.
way lasts persons
The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?
mistake thinking sometimes
And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.