Timothy Goodman > Quotes

“If you're not losing some friends then you're not growing up.”
― Timothy Goodman

“I'm too young to not set my life on fire, I'm too old to not spend my time with somebody I really admire.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“But I guess that’s how the story goes, it’s just another happy story that will never be told.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“While I was there, I learned about this unique French word called “dépaysement.” It literally translates to “decountrification” or “change of scenery,” but it’s used to describe this great feeling of living as a stranger somewhere far away from your memory; a sort of disorientation, lost and searching, but doing it with real curiosity and wonder. That was me in Paris.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Seeing two adults in pain—hurting each other, avoiding each other, never showing love or real communication—stayed with me as an adult. It made me never wanna open up my heart. Instead of seeing love as a beautiful bond that can lead to incredible experiences and growth, I began to associate a relationship as a shortcoming filled with inevitable heartache and pain.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“All I knew is that I’d only ever been young, but I was finally thinking about the bigger picture.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Try to remember that you’re on the right path no matter the weather.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Why do we run up debts on people’s hearts when we don’t pay the balance on them when we break them?”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“In French, instead of saying “I miss you,” they say “Tu me manques,” which literally translates to “You are missing from me.” And by that time tomorrow, I’d be gone, and after all the searching, I’d be back in the city I started from. Only that time she’d be missing from me… but not for very long.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Art is whatever you can get away with.”
― Timothy Goodman, Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques & Ideas for Transforming Your World

“Because once your lover is gone, your pens will write different songs. No more sharing stories. No more Instagram stories. Just two people who never reached the highest story. And while it’s easy to romanticize our stories, sometimes the ones we lose stay with us like family stories handed down, like wrinkles in my hands, we use our memories to feel something again.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“It’s a life’s work to unlearn the attitudes I adopted as a kid, to look in the mirror, to look within, and despite the bad days where I can’t block out the pain in my head, I try to take care of myself as much as I can.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Sometimes all my messy feelings blend together like West Coast seasons that never end.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Now I felt like my heart was just an empty apartment, and every year there’s a different tenant. We all gotta pay our dues, but I kept writing checks that my heart couldn’t deposit.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“approach design as an exercise or a practice, not as a profession.”
― Timothy Goodman, Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques & Ideas for Transforming Your World

“Even the idea of infidelity made me feel like I’m not enough. It made me so ashamed that I shared my heart with someone who could have been insensitive about the way I hurt.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“I’m not gonna write about how thankful I am for our time, how it made me realize I could actually do better in time, how much better I’ll be with the right person next time. I’m not gonna write about her.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“While I was there, I learned about this unique French word called “dépaysement.” It literally translates to “decountrification” or “change of scenery,” but it’s used to describe this great feeling of living as a stranger somewhere far away from your memory; a sort of disorientation, lost and searching, but doing it with real curiosity and wonder.”
― Timothy Goodman, I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator