Darren Charlton > Quotes

“Open places make you consider yourself?"
"Yeah," said Cooper. "Like the plains."
"And the stars?"
"Uh-huh. And the sea and the desert too, Pa says. But I dunno why that is."
Peter shrugged. "Perhaps it's because they make us feel small."
"No. They make me feel bigger, Peter.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“Cooper didn't look away. His blue eyes pierced through the tendrils of his hair like a wolf in the woods. He held Peter's gaze. He didn't smile, but Peter saw one all the same. He didn't speak and yet they were speaking now as if for the first time. There was friendship waiting to come in from the cold. But it was more than that. There was closeness. Unbound possibility.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“It's not love giving up too much of yourself for someone else.”
― Darren Charlton, Timberdark

“...Loved him that little bit more for not letting him be the only one to worry about them. For some reason it was reassuring seeing him get anxious like this.”
― Darren Charlton, Timberdark

“They'll take everything you got inside you because they got nothing left inside them, nothing.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“It didn't make us happy Peter. None of it did. But having all that stuff did something very clever: it stopped us from ever noticing. It kept us busy and, in turn, compliant, as others busied to make more money out of us. We never questioned it. We were too busy. Busy behind our bright screens, busy behind our followers, our likes, our filters, our work, our chores, our box sets, our things. Even movie theatres and televisions, filling our head with other people's dreams. Keeping us quiet. Keeping us in the dark. We just keep filling in the hole, filling in the empty space, filling in our empty lives with stuff so we never even noticed that something else, something better, should always have been there in its place. Life. Life and the natural world around us.”
― Darren Charlton, Timberdark

“I'm sure you've got a heart as big as your Care Bear collection”
― Darren Charlton, Timberdark

“Found them on some dead thing back in the woods and for a moment there it took me right back to Saturday nights at Randy’s Rusty Spur. Now you might think that was just the name of some no-good bar, but you’d be wrong. God, that boy got around.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“Never listen to the Missing Monster. He'll always feed you a pack of dirty lies when a loved one is far away.”
― Darren Charlton, Wranglestone

“Two people, no matter how much they might love one another, were only ever two separate people.”
― Darren Charlton, Timberdark