27 quotes found
“Nothing is ever enough.”
“Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.”
“Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.”
“Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.”
“Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.”
“Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.”
“She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I...”
“This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm livi...”
“When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.”
“Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.”
“I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somew...”
“I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going a...”
“Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.”
“Youre not the same. Youre not supposed to be the same. Youre supposed to be different. This isnt something you will ever forget.”
“And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of me that hasn't changed. In this monent I'm not defined by the other things, the things that happened ...”
“My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitche...”
“No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?”
“We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.Without them, we are empty.”
“if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, wh...”
“I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to...”
“Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.”
