Robert Lane > Quotes

“Hadley III hunched her paws underneath her and delicately consumed her dinner in a civil and dignified manner. Cats are the Audrey Hepburns of the animal world.”
― Robert Lane, A Beautiful Voice

“My father insists the past is like a rudder on a boat: it’s always behind you, but it determines where you go.”
― Robert Lane, Naked We Came

“The rest of the afternoon crawled by with the dull consistency of a metronome.”
― Robert Lane, Cooler Than Blood

“I wandered the streets in the rain, except it wasn’t raining; it was a beautiful Florida evening. But sometimes it rains inside and there is nothing we can do about it and no one else feels it.”
― Robert Lane, The Elizabeth Walker Affair

“concentrated effort to realize the baggage you carry is largely the”
― Robert Lane, The Second Letter

“The clientele was a brew of college students and locals. Some with laptops, others slaved to their phones. And dogs. Always dogs. Everyone’s worried about AI taking over the world. It’s the dogs we’ve got to keep an eye on. Any creature that persuades a human to love it, feed it, groom it, shelter it, attend to its medical needs, and walk behind it at a respectful distance and pick up its shit is a lot smarter than we give it credit for.”
― Robert Lane, Searching for Dali

“the night is stingy and does not give us our thoughts back in the morning.”
― Robert Lane, The Elizabeth Walker Affair

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
― Robert Lane, The Elizabeth Walker Affair

“Love is a salvational dream”
― Robert Lane

“If something in your past is that influential, then it’s obviously not in the past.”
― Robert Lane, The Cardinal's Sin

“wizened”
― Robert Lane, The Elizabeth Walker Affair

“Success,” Winston Churchill noted, “consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Maybe”
― Robert Lane, Cooler Than Blood