I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

- Paula Mclain

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

- Paula Mclain

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingw…

- Paula Mclain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

- Paula Mclain

Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

- Paula Mclain

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

- Paula Mclain

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I pr…

- Paula Mclain

You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.

- Paula Mclain

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 fr…

- Paula Mclain