16 quotes found
“Accidents. It's all about the accidents.”
“Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”
“Love is not something you protect. Its something you risk.”
“I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that”
“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”
“My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.”
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock...”
“It takes a certain kind of naivet, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.”
“I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.”
“...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.”
“When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.”
“If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isnt it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere yo...”
“And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some ro...”
“It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.”
“Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.”
“...I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.”
