Tod Goldberg > Quotes

“The room fell silent. I frankly didn't know what I was going to do to help Eduardo, but I had the sense that he was right- no one else could help him, and without help, all that he'd done would crumble.

Plus, I like being called his only hope. I felt like Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Reformed

“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Reformed

“There was a sweetness in my voice I found nauseating. I made a note to myself never to have children. Or at least not helpless children.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Bad Beat

“What's your name, son?' Sam said. The man looked to be about Sam's age, but Sam always thought calling people 'son' immediately gave the air of imperial authority and opened the door for spanking if need be.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Bad Beat

“I am haunted by every person I have ever loved.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“I think that there are reasons people fall in love over and over again. It’s that feeling that someone wants to always help you. That feeling that you’re never absolutely alone.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“True love is a blinding thing, it can color the experiences of even the worst events with a rosy tint, it can turn men and women into the best types of people—ones who will sacrifice the world for a shared moment of bliss.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“You come to a wedding, you should dress with the dignity of a funeral, because who the fuck knows when you’ll ever see the couple again, and who the fuck knows when they’ll see you again. So you get your look right, you don’t glam it up, you don’t whore it up, even though it’s Las Vegas. No one ever got kicked out of a place in Las Vegas for dressing elegantly.”
― Tod Goldberg, Gangster Nation

“Imagine your fears are particles of dust,” he said. “Pinpoint each one individually and narrow your mind onto that minuscule piece. And then, Paul, then you can examine it. It is so small it cannot hurt you.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that’s just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot how to love someone.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“After the next great plague, or after the ice caps melt and the world floods, or after the sun superheats our planet to 145 degrees in the shade, the only humans left standing to tend to the roaches, rats and flesh-eating zombies will be real estate agents.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Fix

“In 1960, with the advent of potassium-argon dating, anthropologists discovered that the age of the Zinjanthropus site at Olduvai Gorge was more than 1.75 million years older than they thought. It threw off the entire history of the Pleistocene age.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“The danger of drawing parallels is that some things are always inequalities.”
― Tod Goldberg

“You’d be surprised what a guy can learn by staying quiet”
― Tod Goldberg

“Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Reformed

“There are limits, you know. A person can only be pressed so far until they crumble.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“I want to tell her that it’s like flying with paper wings—that when you’re a child, it seems possible—but when you grow up it just sounds doomed for failure.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl

“I’m going to hold you forever, until time doesn’t matter, until we are nothing but dust, until the earth, the sun, the moon are gone and there is no memory of us. I will still hold you.”
― Tod Goldberg, Living Dead Girl