💬 Quotes

"You can’t change the past, and you can’t predict the future. All you can do is hold on to the person standing right in front of you."

"It’s a strange thing, to realize that the life you were born into isn't the one you were meant to live."

"If you want someone’s heart, you have to be willing to give them yours completely, without any walls left standing."

"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth."

"We've had this date with each other from the beginning!"

"Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."

"There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant."

"You healthy Polack, you! You were always a man, and I was always a girl. That's the difference between us."

"It’s amazing how one day you can be completely fine, and the next day your life can be turned upside down. It’s even more amazing how you can’t see it coming."

"I didn't want to fall for you. I didn't want to need you. But I do, and that scares me more than anything else."

"Trust is a fragile thing. Once you break it, it’s never quite the same again, no matter how hard you try to fix it."

"Secrets have a way of poisoning the people who keep them, and the people who are kept in the dark."

"You can't change the past, Nora. You can only learn from it, or let it destroy you."

"I’d rather die knowing the truth than live a lie that feels like safety."

"Truth is never pure and rarely simple."

"If you go to Savannah, you're going to see a lot of people like me. But don't you worry about them. They’re just part of the furniture."

"I’m in the position of a surgeon who has performed a heart transplant on a patient, but the patient died. I’m now being asked by the family why the patient died. And I’m saying, 'I don’t know, but I’ve got the heart right here.'"

"Savannah is a city that likes to keep its secrets, and it has a way of swallowing people whole if they don't play by the rules."

"You have to be very careful in Savannah. You have to know who is who and who is who's cousin."