50 quotes found
“The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.”
“I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.”
“When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.”
“If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.”
“I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...”
“As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.”
“Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.”
“Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.”
“Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.”
“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?”
