Charles Bock > Quotes

“Each and everyone of us moves towards faiths we cannot possibly know. Each of us struggles against the pain of the world even as we are doomed to join it.”
― Charles Bock

“A man’s capacity to feel sorry for himself is bottomless: once you take that first step, it’s an easy slide down.”
― Charles Bock

“we can be here for you. We can love you. That is all we can do. You still have to go through this. You’re the one on the spiritual pilgrimage.”
― Charles Bock, Alice & Oliver

“Just what am I supposed to do now?”
― Charles Bock, Beautiful Children

“She was diagnosed with leukemia when Lily was six months old.... Diana and I had looked at each other, no clue, nowhere to begin, certainly no answers, other than the largest answer, that is, the answer that emerged in how, despite or maybe in lieu of the terror of the situation, our bodies had involuntarily gravitated toward each other, how our petty grudges and growing disagreements—all the fissures and loggerheads that had been emerging in our marriage—had given way.”
― Charles Bock

“And that motherfucking Speaker of the House. Bastard serves his wife with divorce papers while she’s in the hospital getting chemo.” Ruggles wiped his mouth with his sleeve, continued. “You tell me how that fat fuck looks at himself in the mirror.”
― Charles Bock, Alice & Oliver