Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
12 quotes
"Talents too many, not enough of any."
"But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything."
"The longer I don't write, the more I hurt."
"Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live."
"Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce."
"She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it."
"The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking."
"I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both."
"No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief."
"Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore."
"Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood."
"Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye."