Chris Whitaker > Quotes

“Reading isn’t a privilege, sir. I believe we all have the right to leave our problems and escape into another world, if only through the written word.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“To love and be loved was more than could ever be expected, more than enough for a thousand ordinary lifetimes.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Do something meaningful. Or maybe just mean everything you do,” he said.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“When it comes to marriage, love is merely a visitor over a lifetime. Respect and kindness, they are the true foundations.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“The bad are the few, but often they shout louder than the many. Don’t mistake silence for weakness.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“At ten years old he realized that people were born whole, and that the bad things peeled layers from the person you once were, thinning compassion and empathy and the ability to construct a future. At thirteen he knew those layers could sometimes be rebuilt when people loved you. When you loved.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“The thirteen-year-old pirate. And the beekeeper that saved his life.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Best education you can get,” he said. “See through someone else’s eyes and you understand more of everything.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Okay is the preserve of the uninspired, Patchwork. I’d rather live and die at the extremes than exist in the middle.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Franklin Meyer was a cunt, and not the gentleman kind. Franklin’s father was a cunt, too. As kids they were cuntlets. A line of cunts, each one cuntier than the last.” “I wonder what the collective term for—” “A cuntet,” Sammy said knowingly.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“I just wish there was a middle, you know. Because that's where people live. It doesn't have to be all or nothing...sink or swim like that. Most people just tread water, and that's enough. Because when you're sinking, you're pulling us down with you.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Quickest way to shed ignorance is to read a book. Strips it each page you turn, letting knowledge in, you know.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Nothing about them fit. Nothing about them worked. She loved him entirely and absolutely.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If the good stand by idle, are they still good?”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Memories lie in people, not places and things.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If you learn from the times you go wrong, you can revel in the times you don’t.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“God is a first call and a last resort, from christening to death bed. In between is where faith is tested. The mundanity. Anyone can drop to their knees when they’re facing crisis, but doing it when everything is steady…”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Why do we hold on to the bad things and forget the good?”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“The shrink they make me see, she taps her pencil and frowns at me. And she talks about how we construct our ideals out of our own past mistakes. And I wonder what exactly a mistake is. A thing we should not have done, right? But if learning is built on trial and error there can be no mistakes, only rungs on a ladder to someplace better.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“She saw shells of people, so empty she knew they would not recover.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Hope is secular. And life is fragile. And sometimes we hold on too tight, even though we know it’ll break.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She told herself who she was. Duchess Day Radley. Outlaw.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“We look at others with fucking trivial problems, and we think how long they’d last with a taste of our childhoods.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“We fell in love and it was like…you know when all of a sudden there’s meaning. Actual true meaning and purpose.” “Like color in the dark,” Patch said.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“People say it gets easier, but that’s only because each day we get a little closer to seeing them again.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Saint knew that for some it was written in the stars that no matter how hard they fought their road did not lead somewhere good.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,” Norma said.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“We’ll exist at the extremes because the middle is where the healthy pass their time.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark