Ann Hood Quotes

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

No mother should lose her child.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.