Victor Lodato > Quotes

“Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“...not everything in your heart makes it to your mouth. A lot of it gets lost on the way.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“A person's heart is a disgusting thing. You almost can't look at it.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Learning kindness late in life was a kind of torture. The pain often came from the past, form kindnesses withheld. The knife was particularly sharp when those who most deserved your kindness were long gone. And unless you wanted to die of sorrow, you had to give this unspent kindness to those you loved less.”
― Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy

“If I could have one magical power it would be to get inside someone else's head, even just for a second, so that I could know what's important to other people, who they love and who they hate. You might treat certain people differently if you knew what was really in their heart.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“There is no imagination in the world. A person like me is basically alone. If I want to live in the same world as other people I have to make a special effort.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Time is funny lately, nothing to do with clocks.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“What a night, I'm telling you. Odious. Odious with cherries on top.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Even those who loved you best were bound to find the flaws if they stared long enough.”
― Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy

“I went to sleep feeling like a terrorist. But I wasn't going to kill people, I was going to bring them back to life. That's a whole different kind of terror. It's the terror of god.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it's night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I broke a plate. I said sorry Ma it slipped. But it didn't slip, that's how I am sometimes, and I want to be worse.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Stella stellina,
La notte si avvicina,
La fiamma traballa,
La mucca é nella stalla.”
― Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy

“When you're head over heels about someone, it's a real painkiller. You almost wonder why doctors don't recommend it more.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Sick people should look sick, like in fairy tales or on television. They shouldn 't be wearing sexy dresses and shaving their legs. How was I supposed to know she was about to disappear?”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Still, when I read the story, I felt like I'd written half of it myself, and the author guy was responsible for the other half. And when the two halves came together it was like the end of amnesia and all the memories came flooding back. The best stories are like that. They're like spaceships. they take you somewhere far away and you think, oh, what a weird place. But then you think, wait, maybe I've been here before. Maybe I was even born here.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Wenn ich alleine fernsehe, habe ich meine eigenen Regeln und schalte nur ab, nachdem etwas Gutes passiert ist, oder so, dass die letzten Worte, die man hört, einen nicht verletzen. Man will doch nicht abschalten, wenn zwei Leute mitten im Streit sind oder wenn jemand gerade 'Schwein' sagt oder 'Tod' oder 'Mein Auto ist verreckt'.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“The problem is, at a certain point you can't stop thinking even if you want to. I swear, sometimes you just wish you could go back into the dark like a primitive person. But you cant, that's the problem with evolution. Once you have a little bit of knowledge, more of it just keeps coming at you like birds around a bagel. Sometimes when I learn things, I wish I hadn't learned them.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“The thing is, I can't love her, not in the real world. Because this would be degrading to me. To love someone who despises you, and she just might. You should see her eyes on me sometimes. Plus she's not even a mother anymore, she's just a planet with a face. Da at least has hands.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Words weren't a solace, but they focused one's emotions into something more tangible; they were splinters that could actually be pulled from the heart and placed on a table, regarded.”
― Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy

“Birds are the lunatics of the animal world.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Ich gebe Jesus das Oben-Unten-Zeichen und trete näher, weil er sich ja hauptsächlich zeigen will. Sein Körper ist nicht schlecht. Dünn, aber mit Muskeln. Man könnte sich vorstellen, dass er regelmäßig Joggen oder Schwimmen war.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“When the people you love become animals it's awful. You're half afraid to even go near them.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Didn’t they realize that love was slow, shy, baffled half the time by pride? The”
― Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy

“Every pair of lovers lived in their own country, with their own laws.”
― Victor Lodato, Honey

“The thing is, I don't want to end up like Ma and Da. In a house with books and dust and all the love gone out of it.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“Religion verdummt die Leute, wie mein Vater sagt.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“A simplification, as Honey understood it, in regard to a woman’s rage. That a tragic history could only lead to further tragedy—it was absurd, pigheaded even. Violence spawned violence spawned violence, while on the other side of the concrete wall a rose was a rose was a rose. Why must these two equations be kept apart? Why not violence to violence to roses?”
― Victor Lodato, Honey

“But not everything in your heart makes it to your mouth.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch

“There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.”
― Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch