Florence Adler Swims Forever Quotes

“How could a man who had so much always manage to believe he had so little?”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“...was what it felt like to grow old. Eventually people felt so weighed down by the yoke of their own bad decisions that they could scarcely move.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“This, she realized, was what it felt like to grow old. Eventually people felt so weighed down by the yoke of their own bad decisions that they could scarcely move.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“but they were not yet able to distinguish that colors had values, that words had nuance.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“We both know he’d sooner eat his own hat than visit a hospital.” It was true. Joseph wasn’t the type to go anywhere near a hospital, and Fannie knew it as well as Esther did. How did men manage to get away with that? What if Esther hadn’t been the type to make dinner in the evenings? They would all have starved.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“One shovelful of dirt at a time.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“Read to your kids constantly, take them to libraries and museums and theater, buy them plenty of blank journals, and traipse them through worlds that are not their own.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“They were often too honest, the words they chose too blunt. Their worlds were big and bold and colorful but they were not yet able to distinguish that colors had values, that words had nuance. They described the people around them as old or young, ugly or beautiful, fat or thin, never recognizing that there were kinder, gentler, more forgiving words that lay in between.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“Your parents are not so old they can’t start again. None of us ever are.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“How was it possible to both pine and resent a place so much at the same time?”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“She just knew that if her own mother had stitched her anything half as pretty, Gussie would have carried it around in her pocket like a kiss.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“I think most women make some sacrifices for their own security, or the security of the people they love.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“When we share our grief, we validate the fact that the person we have loved and lost made a lasting impression on our lives.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“Writers are taught that every scene needs to present new information, which will ultimately move the story forward.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“…women are frequently underestimated, and my experience as a daughter, sister, wife, and mother contradict the narrative that we can’t hold great sorrow and great joy in our hands at the same time. In fact, it’s often the only thing we can do.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“When Esther had not been looking, her husband, too, had grown old.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever