Dan Chaon Quotes

I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. "Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again." A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

Everything I do now is a first.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.