persistent presence Quotes

How can you hide from what never goes away?

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

You're still here," he whispered. "They couldn't drag me away.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

He never leaves, does he?

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

Not like [Adele Dazeems] going to follow me around for the rest of my life.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.