18 quotes found
“The last good time always comes”
“...there are worse things than losing the girl.”
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
“His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.”
“God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy”
“We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.”
“Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her...”
“Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew back, and I never pressed her. God help me, I was being gallant. I have wondered often since what w...”
“I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.”
“What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.”
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entir...”
“I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.”
“The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Ch...”
“When youretwenty-one, life is a roadmap.Its only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect youve beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until youreforty are you entirely sure.”
“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”
“She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. That's n...”
“Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing Id developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of itshe had to be ten years older ...”
“In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.”
