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“You can't help him, Eva.' Louise's voice is flat and serious. 'You will only lose yourself trying, and no one will be able to find you.' (ANXIOUS HEARTS)”
― Tucker Shaw

“One day you’re going to wake up and the world won’t be as dark … One day the air will change, and the sun will feel good on your face again, and when it does, I want you to let it. It won’t be a betrayal. It won’t mean you’ve stopped caring. I promise.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“Ah,' she says. 'But I know where your heart was. I know where it still is. And so do you.'
He's gone,' I say. I lock the canvas into a hoop and hand it back to her. 'Here.'
Then you must find him,' she says. 'You'll never stop loving him, you know. He'll never really be gone. My Gabriel is still here.'
Your Gabriel?'
Yes, my Gabriel. My husband.'
You mean Lawrence,' I say. Lawrence, her husband who disappeared in a storm over thirty years ago.
I mean my Gabriel. Everyone has one.' Ada takes my hand it puts it over her chest. 'Eva, my heart is ancient. But it still beats for him. Only for him.'
I look into Ada's glistening eyes. She is telling the truth.
You must find him.'
I know that she is right.
(Anxious Hearts)”
― Tucker Shaw

“They say that memories fade with time but I don’t believe that’s true. You carry them with you like stones in your pocket. Sometimes when it’s quiet you take them out and roll them between your fingers. Then you put them back in your pocket, safe again. You don’t leave them behind.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“There are thousands of people in each direction, hundreds of thousands, maybe a million if the news reports later are to be
believed, but the air is still. He can hear a bird across the street scolding another. How can a city, this city, so boisterous and alive a moment ago, be so utterly quiet now? It’s as if every person here has retreated inside
themselves, to find a memory, to grasp a sorrow, to honor their grief. Here, together. The weight of it all, the gravity of this massive display of mourning, amazes him. It’s a hundred times more powerful than the loudest music all day.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“The opening scene is easy. Exterior: Greenwich Village. The beginning of a new decade. A gust of wind, a lucky taxi, a question. Will you come? And then the rest will unfold in mysterious and surprising ways. But there will be no happy ending, because there will be no ending at all. The movie
will last forever.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“Callum’s pull is irresistible now. He needs
him. Adam is falling desperately, physically, finally in love, and suddenly it feels like a very long way to fall. Please catch me, he thinks. Please be there when I land.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“One day you’re going to wake up and the world won’t be so dark.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“He didn't know yet that he would remember this name forever.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“Tell me why you don’t sleep. I didn’t say goodbye. I knew what was happening, but I didn’t say goodbye. I didn’t even try to.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“He sees the scar over his eye. It will fade eventually, but it will never disappear. It will never be as good as new. Maybe that’s okay. Maybe being good as new is overrated.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“But there’s also all this meaning in there, you know? All this human emotion. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. He makes it all so clear.”
“Like a story,” Adam says. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution.
“Yes,” Callum says. “Like a story. You get it.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“And he can throw his arms around Callum and kiss him, and the camera can pan
in close, capturing the devotion in his eyes, and the gratitude in Callum’s, and the strength of their embrace, and the music will come up and the crowd on the steps will erupt into cheers because they don’t know what’s coming, and the audience in the theater will cry because they do know
what’s coming, but everyone cheers for the same reason. They cheer because they believe, or they want to believe, that love conquers all.
Doesn’t it?”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“Maybe, maybe we can survive together, no matter what they want to do to us out there. They don’t know that their world is fake and ours is real.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name

“Just so you know,” Rebecca says, staring at nothing. “The confusion doesn’t go away. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. You just have to figure out how to take that confusion, and turn it into something beautiful.”
― Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name