11 quotes found
“He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.”
“easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.”
“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything”
“Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.”
“Im still pretty sick about what Ive lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why Im not the best sleeper.”
“We get together with people because theyre the same or because theyre different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.”
“Tucker, please put him down," said Annie. "You're frightening Jackson.""He's not," said Jackson. "It's cool. I don't like that guy anyway. Punch him, Dad.”
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.”
“Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But shed spent her hours in the dark wondering whether shed ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend...”
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame...”
“And I have to say, books havent helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, theres always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to...”
