Robert Goolrick Quotes

• If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

  Robert Goolrick

  Love, Loss, Unrequited

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.209, Algonquin Books

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• There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

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  Heart, Loss, Ache

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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• It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

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  Heart, Grace, Skins

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• When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.

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  Long, Looks, May

  Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.310, Algonquin Books

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• There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

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  Night, Grace, Doe

  Robert Goolrick (2007). “The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, Algonquin Books

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• It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

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  Watches, Want, Your Best Friend

  Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.30, Algonquin Books

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• I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)

  Robert Goolrick

  Cat, Night, Sorrow

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

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• I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

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  Kissing, Animal, Thinking

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.109, Algonquin Books

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• The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

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  Sweet, Bitter

  Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.15, Algonquin Books

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• I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

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  Home, Trying, Fiction

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.105, Algonquin Books

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• If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

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  People, Mad, Lack Of Love

  Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.98, Algonquin Books

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• A Catherine Land le gustaban los comienzos de las cosas. La posibilidad blanca y pura de la habitación vacía, el primer beso, el primer golpe de latrocinio. Y los finales, también le gustaban. El drama del cristal que se rompe, el pájaro muerto, la despedida llorosa, la última palabra horrible que nunca se puede dejar de decir o recordar.
  Eran los intermedios los que la hacían detenerse. Esto, a pesar de su impulso hacia delante, era un punto medio. Los comienzos eran dulces, los finales normalmente amargos, pero los intermedios eran sólo la cuerda floja entre uno y otro. Nada más que eso.

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  Goodbye, Sweet, Drama

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• I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it. And now I will have to be that person forever.

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  Men, Giving, Forever

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

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• Nothing says hell has to be fire.

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  Fire, Hell

  Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.4, Algonquin Books

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• The thing is, all memory is fiction.

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  Memories, Fiction

  Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.3, Algonquin Books

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• I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

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  Sad, Pain, Grief

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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