💬 Quotes

"They’ve lived in each other’s pockets for six thousand years, and they’ve both come to the conclusion that the world is a much better place with each other in it."

"It’s a fine world, though rich in hardships."

"The older you get, the more you have to rely on your own judgment, because you've seen enough to know that other people's judgment is usually wrong."

"There ain't nothing so bad that it couldn't get worse."

"I’ve lived with you for thirty years and you haven’t said a word I didn’t already know, and you haven’t done a thing that surprised me."

"If you want to be happy, you have to be able to accept that things change, even if you don't want them to."

"A man who wouldn't cheat for a friend isn't much of a man."

"Obviously, the doctor had never been a thirteen-year-old girl."

"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard our call, still do not hear it, crying out in this whiskey-and-cigarettes-smelling night."

"In the end, we had the pieces of them, but we didn't know who they were."

"Everything in the neighborhood was changing, but the Lisbon house remained a monument to a stricter, older, and more suffocating past."

"Their bodies were like things found on a beach, artifacts of a shipwreck, washed up after the storm had already passed."

"We were the secretaries of their deaths, left to type up the transcripts of their final days."

"People assume that time is a progression, a slope, an incline, but it’s more an expanding sphere. And at the center, the point of origin, is the moment of panic."

"We are the survivors of our own stories."

"I was trying to kill something, but I wasn't sure if it was myself or the part of me that felt so much."

"Crazy is a word people use to describe someone who has stopped following the rules they have agreed to live by."

"Everything is a dream. The world is a dream. A girl is a dream."

"If you look at the sun, you see stars, and if you look at yourself, you see a stranger."

"I deliver death to the innocent, and for the guilty, I have a special, slow justice."