14 Quotes from Hello Beautiful book by Ann Napolitano
Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 14 quotes from Hello Beautiful book by Ann Napolitano that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Love
- We don't choose who we love, because who you love changes everything.
- When your love for a person is so profound that it's part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin.
More Quotes
- I have no interest in dating. 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.
- 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.
- When you grew up in a crowded, small house like they had, much of the dream of adulthood became living somewhere less crowded. Somewhere that was your own and didn't need to be shared.
- Studying history was about scope, about understanding the terrain that surrounded the critical event. Nothing and no one existed in a vacuum.
- It's not insane to be depressed in this world. It's more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what's going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.
- Life was opportunity, a chest of drawers to open, one after the other.
- It's a horrible thing to be a divorced woman. Men can recover from a marriage ending, but women don't.
- We all run into a wall at full speed at one point or another. A wife's role is to stand by her husband when that happens. Twenty years from now, you'll look back together on this time and it'll look like a small blip in your marriage. You'll be glad you stuck it out.
- We have to keep growing, or we don't live.
- Adults are idiots. My goal is to grow up and not be an idiot.
- The more times a story was told, the less accurate it became. Humans were prone to exaggeration; they leaned away from the parts of the narrative they found boring and leaned into the exciting spots. Details and timelines changed over years of repetition. The story became more myth and less true.
- Dying was simply going to be an exercise in letting go of one thing after another.