10 quotes found
“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.”
“I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.”
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.”
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.”
“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”
“When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.”
“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.”
“Look at the lonely fisherman,' my father says.'Look at his view,' my mother says.”
“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.”
“You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?”
