Craig Lancaster > Quotes

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
― Craig Lancaster, Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure

“That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“The complaint lies with me, not with you. I never could find a way to make you proud of me, and at some point, I think I stopped trying. When you were here, I blamed you for that. I think now, the failure is mine... It occurs to me that death is a funny thing - not funny in a laughter sort of way, but in a twisty sort of way. It's the people who are left behind who have to grapple with the regret. The one who is gone is just gone. Wherever you are... I hope you have regret about what happened yesterday.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“As I was saying, you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter

“I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me.
That hurt my feelings.”
― craig lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“I think a high grammar standard may be a losing fight on the Internet.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“when we say nasty things about other people, we’re really criticizing something in them that we don’t like in ourselves.”
― Craig Lancaster, Edward Adrift

“Jack Bauer is fooling his audience, but he's not fooling me.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“I’m adrift. That’s the feeling I’ve had since setting out today—and, really, for much of this shitburger of a year—and I’ve finally found the word to describe that feeling.”
― Craig Lancaster, Edward Adrift

“Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“We never have that kind of fun now. Thinking of that made me sad. I hope we can have fun again sometime. I found out that I still know how. Maybe you still know how too.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?”
― Craig Lancaster, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter

“There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Summer Son

“For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Summer Son

“Dinner is leftover spaghetti, with meat sauce, warmed up in the microwave. I eat spaghetti nine times a week, every week, and it is my favorite food. And yet, tonight, I wonder if I'm in a rut.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“Crying comes from many sources and has many causes: anger, frustration, sadness, lack of sleep. I think I am suffering from all four, and I think that is why I have been crying.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’m not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter

“the only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“it’s a shameful feeling to admit to another human being that you’ve been acting like a child. So here’s a bit of advice for you: While you are a child, live it up. You won’t get to act like that forever without making a fool out of yourself.”
― Craig Lancaster, Edward Unspooled

“I left, but not before I kissed your mother eight times on the lips. That’s what we do, and amid all this uncertainty and lack of normalcy, I think it’s important to maintain our standards.”
― Craig Lancaster, Edward Unspooled

“I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside. I believe that my ideas about green highlighters and yellow highlighters could have served the Muscular Dystrophy Association well, if only they were given a proper and considerate airing.”
― Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward

“You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That’s what matters.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter

“The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Summer Son

“Life will go better for you the less you’re bothered by people and their dumb habits.)”
― Craig Lancaster, Edward Unspooled