10 Quotes & Sayings By Molly Okeefe

Molly O'Keefe is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels "The Accident Season", "A Memory Like Glass", "The Promise of Forever" and "The Color of Winter". Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is also the author of two books on reading, "The Art of Reading" and her forthcoming book, "A Life Worth Living." She lives with her husband in Pennsylvania.

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I loved books. Loved reading. It not only gave me an escape from my own world, but opened a door into other worlds. It allowed me, at the beginning of my marriage, to suffer with some grace. As long as I had another world to go to, what did I care about how small and strange and terrifying my own life had gotten? Molly OKeefe
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I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good. Molly OKeefe
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She was saying words she didn’t totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me. Molly OKeefe
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You’re not broken, Dylan. I know you’re not. Molly OKeefe
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It’s about his family. It will always be about his family. And himself. Deep in your heart you know that and you’re trying to convince yourself that you can save him. And you can’t. There’s no saving Dylan Daniels. Molly OKeefe
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Sometimes, maybe we don’t know exactly what we have until someone shows us. Molly OKeefe
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In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others. Molly OKeefe
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After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten. Molly OKeefe
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It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail. Molly OKeefe