338 quotes found
“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”
“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”
“Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.”
“The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.”
“Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.So death for Edbut not for everyone.Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.Like,don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas...”
“The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.”
“Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.”
“The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never ...”
“One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.”
“The old are a regular subject for sympathy.”
“The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.”
“Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.”
“From my new release, Cry for Me.This is Bryen talking."Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rotten...”
“That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.”
“The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.”
“I'm also getting a piece of chocolate cake... "Can I have a bite?" he asked, his voice smooth and sexy. A bite of what? she wanted to ask, but didn't. She wasn't ready for that level of flirting. "...”
“Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a sc...”
“You were as much in prison as anyone I knew there, Colin. Only you created it for yourself. Your father paced out the cell and your brothers fit the bars and you turned the key in the lock and buri...”
“I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.”
“Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyones expectations and free-fall for once in her life”
