52 quotes found
“To world enough and time.”
“I love you always. Time is nothing.”
“Why is love intensified by absence?”
“But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.”
“Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.”
“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
“It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
“Its dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think abo...”
“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”
“I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memorie...”
“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.”
“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”
“I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.”
“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
“I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol coug...”
“When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a tr...”
“The hardest lesson is Clares solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; Ive interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an ...”
“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.”
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not ...”
“You can still be cool when youre dead. In fact, its much easier, because you arent getting old and fat and losing your hair.”
“...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. ”
