15 quotes found
“What do your parents know, about surviving? ”
“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
“..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.”
“...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
“We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us”
“If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.”
“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instanc...”
“It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”
“Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you a...”
“I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.”
“In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last wordsor perhaps someone elsesbefore sl...”
“Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you ...”
“We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”
“One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and...”
“Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a lib...”
