Matthew Aaron Goodman > Quotes

“Our love was unwavering, unflappable, greater than anything presented by the Bible, the Torah, and the Qur'an combined. That is, where we'd go, what would occur, what we lost and gained together, what we suffered and championed through, what we sometimes wished to recall and force ourselves to forget, our lives, the occasions and circumstances, were more than everything, more than forever, more than even the truth.”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong

“They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back to crack.”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong

“All of my life, trains had been coming and going, interrupting Ever’s daily life with their loud disregard.”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong

“That is, I could either see myself as a nonentity, or I could see myself as whatever I wished to be, like a star, born from the bang of nothing or a dream.”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong

“My emotions were arrivals and departures, nonstop insignificances speeding through a station.”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong

“And what mattered most was not that I needed to see and hear that I was beautiful. No, what mattered most was that I was in love with a young woman whose love for me introduced me to the vastness of the universe, the infinite and the finite, from Timbuktu to me, the young Ever Park brother who played basketball and wrote secret letters, and who sometimes just happened to, you know, stumble in and find Kaya in the library after school.”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong

“The truth was that although my grandma loves us and we loved her, the courage to love someone new, someone she had no hand in creating had been razed from her, torn from its roots, burned and hacked from every follicle, every pore. So she was scared to love. Because she didn't think she could handle it. Because what would she do or become if love was stripped from her once more?”
― Matthew Aaron Goodman, Hold Love Strong