Bryan Reardon > Quotes

“Life is kind of like that, picking the memories you want to frame. We all have an idea of how it should be, all smiles and swing sets. There are the more unsavory moments that we leave in the box stashed up in the darker parts of our psyche. We know they exist but we don’t go flaunting them in front of the dinner guests.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“This little infant, so small and frail, you would think him the vulnerable one. The truth is that the real vulnerability opened inside us. No longer did we live as ourselves. We lived for him.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“There are moments in life when you are faced with an impossible decision; a choice must be made when you no longer live for yourself.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“Their conversations hung like riddles, so obvious to the tellers yet so utterly befuddling to me.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“Life is kind of like that, picking the memories you want to frame.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“The honest reason I breathe is because I am scared. I fear death. I fear living. I fear loss. I fear change. I fear everything and nothing at the same time.”
― Bryan Reardon, Finding Jake

“I was the true American dream. I’d made it. I was rich and famous. I could get a table at Nobu myself now. I had it all. And the second I did, I realized that it wasn’t enough. Not that I needed to be more famous. Make more money. Instead, I learned that I’d spent all my life chasing a dream. I’d run myself ragged.”
― Bryan Reardon, Let Her Lie: A Novel