Coming to Terms Quotes

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

At some point, we all have to let go.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.

'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.