173 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.”
“The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you ...”
“It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.”
“The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.”
“We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.”
“Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel”
“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”
“All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevityhappy marriages, healthy bodiesare ours to have. We live long,good lives. We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by...”
“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.”
“...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.”
“For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.”
“Thank you," I tell Xander. "I didn't get anything for you -""It's all right," he says, "but maybe - you could -"He looks into my eyes and I know what he wants. A kiss. Even thought he knows about K...”
“No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.”
“Good-bye, I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the choices of our fathers and mothers in our hands and when we cling on or let them s...”
“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me? I ask.We thought he might, my mother says.Why didnt you stop him?We didnt want to take away your choices, my mother says.But Grandfather never d...”
“They were too much to carryso i left them behindfor a new life, in a new placebut no one forgot who i wasi didn'tand neither did the people who watchthey watched for yearsthey watch now”
“It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.”
“I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)”
“If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost.”
“I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.”
