Top 18 Barbara Delinsky Quotes



It´s like you get started in one direction and pick up speed, and you may forget where you´re going and why,but the momentum takes you there anyway. Only, you find out when you arrive that it isn´t where you wanted to be.

 

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

 

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

 

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

 

Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.

 

When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

 

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

 

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

 

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

 

Especially at a time when one’s life was new, roots helped.

 

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

 

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

 

It feels like forever, like he’s lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

 

Home development is about wishful thinking. It’s about capturing a dream.

 

Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.

 

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show….It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?

 

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

 

Rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their own.

 

 

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