💬 Quotes

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."

"You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

"The world is not a wish-granting factory."

"And the tree was happy."

"I wish that I could give you something... But I have nothing left. I am just an old stump. I am sorry."

"Come, Boy, come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and eat apples and play in my shade and be happy."

"I am too big to climb and play. I want to buy things and have fun. I want some money."

"Take my branches, Boy, and cut them off and build a house. Then you will be happy."

"And after a long time the boy came back again."

"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."

"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place."

"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads... every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it."

"An’ live off the fatta the lan’."

"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you."

"Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."