1,366 quotes found
Author · American · 1947
American author (born 1947)
“Maybe, he thought, there arent any such things as good friends or bad friendsmaybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when youre hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe theyre ...”
“(...) if that's what has to be. no good friends. No bad riends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
“(...) if that's waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
“The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...”
“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.”
“Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual c...”
“Words have weight.”
“You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, theres always a bloody show.”
“A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.”
“Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!”
“Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.”
“People are only rational on the surface.”
“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
“Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.”
“Sometimes dead is better”
“You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.”
“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”
“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”
“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.”
“There was a lot they didnt tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”