Diane Meier Quotes

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and make sense of my life. I harbored the hope, I'm now embarrassed to admit, that like a girl in a Lifetime movie, I would look into someone's eyes and find a reflection of my inner life. But sometime between my teenage years and the first years in New York, that idea had pretty well evaporated. I'd grown up.

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.