Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
Paula McLainShe was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.
Paula McLainBut in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
Paula McLainErnest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.
Paula McLain