22 Quotes from The Paper Palace book by Miranda Cowley Heller

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 22 quotes from The Paper Palace book by Miranda Cowley Heller 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.

The Paper Palace Quotes

  • I love the way trees grow up and down at the same time. I wish we could do that.
  • That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
  • Brits always insist on acting as if weather doesn't exist. It starts pouring rain and they just turn their collars up.
  • Knowledge can be power, but it can also be poison.
  • Manhattan and beach are two of the greatest things on earth. But put them together and all you have is mediocrity.
  • Fat thighs are like a phantom limb. Years after you lose them, you can still feel them rubbing together.
  • I have two choices. One I can't have. One I don't deserve to have.
  • Does letting go mean losing everything you have, or does it mean gaining everything you never had?
  • There are two things in life you never regret - a baby and a swim.
  • 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.
  • There's nothing better than bacon and eggs for a hangover. Actually, there's nothing better than bacon. Food of the gods.
  • There is no such thing as unforgivable between people who love each other. But even as I'm thinking it, I know it's not really true.
  • Love is blind, thank god. Or at least my wife is. That's the secret to my happiness.
  • Nice is the enemy of interesting.
  • All teenagers are a nightmare. And girls are worse.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • There are some swims you do regret. The problem is, you never know until you take them.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.