85 quotes found
Author · American · 1965
American author (born 1965)
“The.World.Is.Not.A.Safe.Place.”
“I have a very low eerie threshold.”
“I can't shove the dark out of my way.”
“Was the sky always this shade of magenta?”
“What is bad for the heart is good for art.”
“The feet of ghosts never touch the ground.”
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey b...”
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
“Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?”
“For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, Ill consider it.”
“The sky's gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.”
“Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is...”
“This is our story to tell. Youd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I havent. Ive never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of li...”
“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
“Because how could he have done this?How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?”
“There once was a girl who found herself dead.She peered over the ledge of heavenand saw that back on earthher sister missed her too much,was way too sad,so she crossed some pathsthat would not have...”
“Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.I have grey eyes to her green,an oval face to her heart-shaped one,I'm shorter, scrawnier, paler, flatter, plainer, tamer.All we shared is a...”
“Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house.”
“I have to go," I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?”
“grief is a housewhere the chairshave forgotten how to hold usthe mirrors how to reflect usthe walls how to contain usgrief is a house that disappearseach time someone knocks at the dooror rings the...”
“How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?”
“The coolest guys aren't afraid to be feminists.”
“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon]I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleve...”
“She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.”
“This is our story to tell. He says it in his Ten Commandments way and it hits me that way: profoundly. You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I...”
