Chris Whitaker > Quotes

“She saw flashes of the boy who loved her, of the man growing tired of the woman she was still becoming.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Everyone on this earth is placed here for someone else. You follow your dreams and find them, and you make a match and nothing else matters. Haven’t you heard the frog sing it?”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Quickest way to shed ignorance is to read a book. Strips it each page you turn, letting knowledge in, you know.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“- Is there a difference between a mistake and a regret? - If you learn from the mistake, it’s less of a regret.”
― Chris Whitaker

“When it comes to marriage, love is merely a visitor over a lifetime. Respect and kindness, they are the true foundations. If I’m honest, I think you should marry him.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“To love and be loved was more than could ever be expected, more than enough for a thousand ordinary lifetimes.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“You don’t cry because it’s over, you smile that it happened,”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Why do we hold on to the bad things and forget the good?”
― Chris Whitaker

“Memories lie in people, not places and things.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“He gives us the tools to be better, to build better. And if we turn around and use those tools to hack at others, to undo whatever good has been constructed, then we may turn back and accuse him of not doing the building for us.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“People say it gets easier, but that’s only because each day we get a little closer to seeing them again.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Unhealthy pursuits. We’ll exist at the extremes because the middle is where the healthy pass their time.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“We all tell you to move forward, but where exactly is forward? There’s no other place we can go. To face the past is to momentarily turn your back on what is now. And when you do that, you miss so damn much.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“the bad things no longer matter if you choose not to repeat them.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Marty laughed. "We fell in love and it was like...you know when all of a sudden there's meaning. Actual meaning and purpose."
"Like color in the dark," Patch said.
"Yes. Exactly yes. Nothing is so dark with them in the world.”
― Chris Whitaker

“And I wonder what exactly a mistake is. A thing we should not have done, right? But if learning is built on trial and error there can be no mistakes, only rungs on a ladder to someplace better.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“So many gone and never found and no one ever charged. […] The girls outnumbered the boys fifty to one. They varied in appearance but were one and the same. Young. Mostly too young to realize they were birthmarked with targets that only boldened with time, invisible to begin with, taking shape though formative years and burning red hot through puberty and into their teens.”
― Chris Whitaker

“I wonder what exactly a mistake is. A thing we should not have done, right? But if learning is built on trial and error, there can be no mistakes. Only rungs on a ladder to some place better.”
― Chris Whitaker

“Hope is expectation. Anyone that tells you less is lying to themselves.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Though it’s dark, I’ll always find you. Though you’re stronger than me, I’ll always make sure that you’re safe. To me, you’ll always come first.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Because you take the problems…the flaws in design, and you take them so personally.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Is there a difference between a mistake and a regret?” the girl said. “If you learn from the mistake, it’s less of a regret.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Though later that morning, when he lay dying in the woodland, he’d take that morning still and purse it till the colors ran because he knew it could not have been so beautiful. That nothing was ever so beautiful in his life.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“How Jimmy ejaculated before she could take his pants off. And how he got mad and walked out of their cheap motel room and smoked a cigarette in his car.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Someone once told me you could hear a smile.”
― Chris Whitaker

“My grandmother says some people are born to make others work harder,”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“At ten years old he realized that people were born whole, and that the bad things peeled layers from the person you once were, thinning compassion and empathy and the ability to construct a future. At thirteen he knew those layers could sometimes be rebuilt when people loved you. When you loved.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“a place where a young girl would lose her life at the hands of a man who remained out of reach despite all they knew about him.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“frisson,”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Often for kids like him the flair of fiction dulled a reality too severe.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark