I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.
I don't think you can ever return, really.
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.
there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.
They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
