💬 Quotes

"You have to be crotchety and tough and not give a damn about anything, because that’s the only way you can keep from getting hurt."

"The flock gets sight of a Rainbird—don’t know how—but they all turn yellow and fly away. That’s the way we’re living here."

"He’s what he is, that’s all. He isn’t trying to be something he isn’t. A guy like that, he’s got to win."

"She’s not losing her grip, she’s just changing her tactics. She’s too smart to just come out and kill someone."

"They don’t bother asking me; they just go on talking like I wasn’t there, like I was a part of the wall or something."

"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play."

"It’s funny how in this world, even when you’re trying to be nice, you can still end up being the bad guy."

"Everything touches everything else. You are part of a whole. A life is not lived in a vacuum."

"A lot of you cared, just not enough. But who’s to say what’s enough?"

"People say they want the truth, but they don’t. They want the version of the truth that makes them feel better."

"You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not just messing with that one part. Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life."

"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

"If you are careful, if you use good judgment, which I don't, then you're safe. Good luck."

"I think the world is a dangerous place, and I think that’s why we’re here—to try to make it safer."

"You must get serious about the things you care about, but you must expect that the things you care about will eventually betray you."

"Under the circumstances, we are all just marking time."

"Look at the life you've had; you've had a lot of life, and you've had it fully."

"Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, the deadly rage that brought countless woes upon the Achaeans."

"For even as the leaves of the trees, so are the generations of men; the wind scatters the leaves upon the earth, but the living wood brings forth more when the season of spring comes."

"I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before—I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my children."