Edward Bloor > Quotes

“You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.”
― Edward Bloor, Taken

“Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.”
― Edward Bloor, London Calling

“I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about”
― Edward Bloor, Taken

“Life is hard when you have no one to stick up for you. People push you around, purely because there's no one to stop them from pushing you around.”
― Edward Bloor, Crusader

“A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.”
― Edward Bloor, Crusader

“History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.”
― Edward Bloor, London Calling

“But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.”
― Edward Bloor, Crusader

“All of our time, energy, and money go into keeping people away from us, into building up walls. What if we didn't do that? What if we became part of the world around us? What if we used all of that time, energy, and money for something else? For a greater good? We would no longer be people who were only worth a trash bag full of ransom money. We would be people who were worth something real.”
― Edward Bloor, Taken

“There are a lot of sad stories. It seems like everybody has one to tell.”
― Edward Bloor, Crusader

“Life is complicated. You don't only have two simple choices: drunk or teetotaler; saint or sinner. It's more complicated than that.”
― Edward Bloor, London Calling

“But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“Once you've been taken, you usually have twenty-four hours left to live.”
― Edward Bloor, Taken

“You shouldn't be too hard with little boys. You should treat them as precious, because that's what they are.

—James Harker”
― Edward Bloor, London Calling

“History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But, up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story taht could never be repeated.”
― Edward Bloor

“Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.”
― Edward Bloor, Crusader

“I set the garbage bag down and leaned against the station wagon, staring east, directly into the rising sun. I’m not supposed to do that because my glasses are so thick. My brother, Erik, once told me that if I ever look directly into the sun with these glasses, my eyeballs will burst into flame, like dry leaves under a magnifying glass.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“I was all the way down at the entrance pond before I stopped. I stood there and stared at the dark water until I finally understood. And it was so very simple. There's no big mystery here. The truth about Luis is obvious to all of the people around him. Their lives are not made up of bits and pieces of versions of the truth. They don't live that way. They know what really happened. Period. Why would that seem so mysterious to me?”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“Victor jumped on Arthur and started pummeling him furiously, landing roundhouse blows to his head so fast that his arms were a blur, like the nylon strings on a Weed Whacker.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“You know how to spell that? G-U-Z-M-A-N. Don’t you go spelling my name wrong, or I’ll have to mess you up.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“Not remember? You’ve got to be kidding. Erik’s flying banana-peel back-flop in the mud is the one thing about this game that everybody is going to remember.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“After I finished reading the essay, I began to worry. Did Betty Bright mind the publicity? I thought about her meeting at the practice field with Mr. Donnelly and the photographer, and Shandra Thomas's frightened run from the camera. Did Betty Bright feel the same way? Did she mind this painful memory being plastered across the front page of the newspaper? Did she mind having to relive that punch in the eye?”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“sixth and seventh graders”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine

“football stadium has just lost half of its seating capacity. And Erik Fisher, the soon-to-be-famous placekicker, has just lost half of his audience.”
― Edward Bloor, Tangerine