Steven Rowley > Quotes

“To live is the rarest of things. Most people merely exist.”
― Steven Rowley

“She desperately wished she believed in heaven where her parents could look down and see this. And then she was immediately comforted by the fact that she didn't; her parents had looked down on her enough.”
― Steven Rowley

“Ignore him," Patrick instructed the agent. "He's what happens when the ventriloquist dies and the dummy keeps talking.”
― Steven Rowley

“I'm serious." she whispers. "If my kid ever wrote something, like you did, about me? I would be thrilled. Because that would mean I was seen." Her eyes got a little misty. "Really seen. As a person. You know? Not his waitress. Not his maid. Not his jailer. A person.”
― Steven Rowley

“Some days you miss the pain because you're afraid because as the pain softens so do the memories of the ones that you lost.”
― Steven Rowley

“You can’t change the past. But some people come into our lives to give us a second chance and set some wrong things right.”
― Steven Rowley

“Pain doesn't lift until you feel it.”
― Steven Rowley

“They might fool themselves into thinking that more time affords them opportunities to do more things, that the future is open-ended. But the world is simply too big. We weren't meant to see everything, we weren't built to do everything, we aren't capable of knowing everything. At a certain point, peace has to be found with the choices we've made.”
― Steven Rowley

“Grief orbits the heart. Some days the circle is greater. Those are the good days. You have room to move and dance and breathe. Some days the circle is tighter. Those are the hard ones.”
― Steven Rowley

“With every good memory comes the memory of a mistake. A parallel memory. A darker recollection.”
― Steven Rowley

“[And] change is the biggest part of living.”
― Steven Rowley

“That grief can be a prison. And at some point in the future I wanted him to look back on this day and remember that he has the strength to break free.”
― Steven Rowley

“Patrick remembered how for years after Joe died, the way his heart would lift whenever someone opened a door. He knew intellectually Joe wouldn't walk through. But in those fractions of seconds, he remembered what hope felt like.”
― Steven Rowley

“Magic. Isn’t that what life was?”
― Steven Rowley

“To remind themselves that at any given moment others carried them in higher esteem than they might themselves. It was designed to lift them in their lowest moments to keep them from doing anything rash.”
― Steven Rowley

“They were so much like themselves at twenty-two in this moment, stunned by the prospect of death. Yes, they had aged, that was unavoidable, but surely they were still invincible”
― Steven Rowley