Hadley Quotes

1. "Hadley Grayson is my lightning, my speed, my hearts, my candy.I've never tried any of my own products and I'm glad I haven't.It might have reduced my tolerance for happy."
Author: Amanda Lance

2. "Complicated? You go to dinner with Andrew Brenner and you fuck me? No, that's not complicated," he smiled bitterly. "I mean this is fun and all, Hadley. This is really fucking great. But, don't tell me you don't date people when all you really mean is you don't take me seriously. And don't tell me something is complicated when it's actually really simple."
Author: Audrey Bell

3. "You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?"Hadley shook her head. "She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours."
Author: Erica Bauermeister

4. "One cat just leads to another."[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]"
Author: Ernest Hemingway

5. "Then I started to think in Lipp's about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It was up in Cortina d'Ampezzo when I had come back to join Hadley there after the spring skiing which I had to interrupt to go on assignment to Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was a very simple story called ‘Out of Season' and I had omitted the real end of it which was that the old man hanged himself. This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood."
Author: Ernest Hemingway

6. "So," the woman asks, digging through her purse and emerging with a pair of foam earplugs, "how did you two meet?"They exchange a quick glance."Believe it or not," Oliver says, "it was in an airport.""Oh how wonderful!" she exclaims, looking positively delighted. "And how did it happen?""Well" he begins, sitting up a bit taller, "I was being quite gallant, actually, and offered to help her with her suitcase. And then we started talking and one thing lead to another..."Hadley grins "And he's been carrying my suitcase ever since.""It's what an true gentlemen would do," Oliver says with an exaggerated modesty."Especially the really gallant ones."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

7. "Well," he begins, sitting up a bit taller, "I was being quite gallant, actually, and offered to help with her suitcase. And then we started talking and one thing led to another...." Hadley grins. "And he's been carrying my suitcase ever since." "it's what any true gentleman would do," Oliver says with exaggerated modesty. "Especially the really gallant ones." The old woman seems pleased by this, her face folding into a map of tiny wrinkles. "And here you both are." Oliver smiles. "Here we are."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

8. "Hadley knows this isn't some Disney movie. Her parents aren't ever getting back together"
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

9. "True," he says. "But I'm able to supplement it with my wealth of British intelligence and charm." "Right," Hadley says. "Charm. When do I get to see some of that?" He twists his mouth up at the corners. "Didn't some guy help carry your suitcase earlier?" "Oh yeah," she says, tapping a finger against her chin. "That guy. He was great. I wonder where he went?"
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

10. "[Hadley] "I have a fear of mayo, so I've actually gotten pretty good at it over the years."[Oliver] "You have a fear of mayo?"She nods again."It's in my top three or four.""What are the others?" he asks with a grin. "I mean what could possibly be worse than mayonnaise."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

11. "Good," Violet says. "Because I'll expect you to come back over when Monty and I get married.""Monty?" Hadley asks, staring at her. She tries to successfully to recall if she's even seen them speak to each other. "You guys are engaged?" "Not yet," Violet says as she starts walking toward the dinning room. "But you don't look so gobsmacked. I've got a good feeling about it." Hadley falls into step beside her. "That's it? A good feeling?" "That's it," she says. "I think it's meant to be."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

12. "Hadley falls into step beside her. 'That's it? A good feeling?' 'That's it,' she says. 'I think it's meant to be.' 'I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way, Hadley says with a frown, but Violet only smiles. 'What if it does?"
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

13. "- Me da miedo la mayonesa, así que con los años me he convertido en una experta.—¿Te da miedo la mayonesa?—Está entre mis tres o cuatro principales fobias.—¿Cuáles son las otras? —pregunta el chico con una sonrisa—. ¿Qué puede haberpeor que la mayonesa?—Los dentistas —empieza a enumerar Hadley—. Las arañas. Los hornos.—¿Los hornos? Supongo que no te gusta demasiado cocinar, entonces.—Y los espacios pequeños —continúa Hadley en voz más baja."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

14. "But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that's something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it's wheels, and they begin to walk."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

15. "Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him."You looked like you needed some help."Hadley just stares at him."And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

16. "Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

17. "But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but for now, it was more the gesture itself. He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

18. "Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women who seem weirdly delighted to be bailing out of a series of cartoon planes. Beside her, Oliver stifles a laugh, and she glances up again."What?""I've just never seen anyone actually read one of those things before,""Well," she says, "then you're very lucky to be sitting next to me.""Just in general?"She grins. "Well, particularly in case of an emergency.""Right," he says. "I feel incredibly safe. When I'm knocked unconscious by my tray table during some sort of emergency landing, I can't wait to see all five-foot-nothing of you carry me out of here."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

19. "Hadley presiono su cabeza contra la ventana del taxi y se descubre sonriendo al pensar en él. Es como una canción que uno no puede quitarse de la cabeza. Por mucho que lo intente, la melodía de su encuentro suena sin fin en su cerebro, cada vez más hermosa, como una nana, o un himno, y se le ocurre que nunca se cansará de escucharla."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

20. "But no escape route." "Ah," he says. "So you're looking for an escape route." Hadley nods. "Always."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

21. "Yeah," Violet says from where she's stooped on the floor. "But those weren't family tears." Whitney rakes her fingers through Hadley's hair. "What were they, then." "Those were boy tears," Violet says with a smile."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

22. "Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in theworld.""I'm not talking about love," Hadley insisted. "I'mtalking about marriage."Mom shrugged. "That," she said, "is even worse."
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

23. "I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again."
Author: John Dickson Carr

24. "I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently."
Author: Michael Ledeen

25. "Those early days in Paris were nearly forty years behind him and yet, in the final pages he writes of Hadley, "I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her."
Author: Paula McLain

26. "The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at."
Author: Solange Knowles

27. "Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you."
Author: Sophie Jordan

28. "(Hadley and Mary in the Garden at Blanchard House)He laughed, a harsh sound, all sign of humor leaving his eyes. "Don't let any of it fool you, my dear, for even the most tarnished silver can acquire a fine and gleaming polish. And believe me, there is far more tarnish here than an innocent and unschooled eye such as yours can discern.""Why would you speak so of yourself?" Mary protested.He reached for a red-gold curl that had escaped her lace cap and coiled it around his !nger. "I would forewarn you, Miss Edwardes that I am a man, and men in general are not to be trusted…" He held her gaze as he slowly released the ringlet, allowing his fingers to skim her cheek. "…especially not by pretty young virgins."
Author: Victoria Vane

29. "(First Kiss)"It's not that—" she turned to protest but stopped when he brushed the corner of her mouth with his thumb. Her gaze widened as he inspected it with a half-smile."A vestige of jam tart, I believe. But alas," he gave a helpless shrug. "I have no napkin." Before she realized what he was about, he brushed her lips in a feathery kiss, lingering at the corner of her mouth, where his tongue flicked out to taste her. The unexpectedness of it stunned her. "Lord Hadley! Wh-what are you doing?""If you have to ask, I must be losing my touch. Perhaps I should try again?"
Author: Victoria Vane

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