102 quotes found
“Feeling sorry for myself was an art.”
“Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.”
“I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.”
“I think you love him more than you can bear.”
“I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.”
“The problem with parents is that they're adults.”
“I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.”
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”
“For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.”
“It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.”
“Ad we interviewing each other?Something like that.What position am I applying for?Best friend.I thought I already had the job.Don't be so sure, you arrogant son of a bitch.”
“What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youn...”
“Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.”
“Rafael?Yeah?Do we all have monsters?Yes.Why does God give us so many monsters?You want to know my theory?Sure.I think its other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesnt have anything to do wit...”
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.”
“In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash a...”
“The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.”
“Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely”
“Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.""I know," she said. "Try to do it behind my back, will you?You can bet on that, Mom.We both sat there and laughed.”
“Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, lets not get into that. Its like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let ...”
“One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.”
“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know', I said. 'Tomorrow.”
