Taylor Adams > Quotes

“The difference between a hero and a victim? Timing.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but damn, it sure can rhyme.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Sometimes God puts people exactly where they need to be. Even when they don’t know it.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Darby preferred to live her life wide-eyed, tormented, running, because nothing can catch you if you never stop.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Don’t fear the pros. The pros know what they’re doing, and do it cleanly. Fear the amateurs.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“There’s refuge in normalcy — if you can hold onto it.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Inhale. Count to five. Exhale. Forward motion.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“there are three T’s. Time. Tears. Talking. They’ll get you through it. Trust me. Trust them. Whatever it takes, keep going.”
― Taylor Adams, The Last Word

“Stop overthinking. Anticipation is always worse than reality. Always.”
― Taylor Adams, The Last Word

“Excuses are poison,” Ed repeated. “Doing the right thing is hard. Talking yourself out of it is easy.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Death is supposed to transform you from a person into an idea.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Opinions are like assholes, the saying goes, and the internet has millions of both.”
― Taylor Adams, The Last Word

“the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“You don’t really die when your heart stops. You die when you’re forgotten.”
― Taylor Adams, Hairpin Bridge

“You want to know the secret to ruining your life? It's never one big black-and-white decision. It's dozen's of little ones that you make every single day. It's excuses, in my case. Excuses are poison”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“You’re the sum of every trait I’ve ever hated in a human being.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Too much caffeine, not enough sleep. This wasn’t a movie. This was just real life.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Up and down lost all meaning. Her world became a violent tumble-dryer, an endless, crashing kaleidoscope.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet.”
― Taylor Adams

“You never know how finite your time together really is until it’s up.”
― Taylor Adams, The Last Word

“Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain.”
― Taylor Adams

“She remembered walking back from there last month, half-drunk with a gaggle of half-friends from her dorm, and when one of them asked her (only half-giving a shit) where she’d planned to go for Christmas break, Darby had answered bluntly: that it would require an act of God Himself to make her come back home to Utah. And apparently He’d been listening, because He’d blessed Darby’s mother with late-stage pancreatic cancer.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Evil works hard to rationalize itself.”
― Taylor Adams, The Last Word

“You’ll never know if you don’t let people in.”
― Taylor Adams, The Last Word

“You’re the reason Dad left us. And if I could have chosen him instead of you, I would have. In a heartbeat. In a fucking heartbeat, Maya. Before hanging up, her mother had answered: If he really wanted you, Darby, he would have taken you. She sipped her cocoa again. Lukewarm.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Sometimes he felt like a man with a fork trapped in a world of soup.”
― Taylor Adams, Eyeshot

“Odd, how sounds and smells linger in the memory.”
― Taylor Adams, Hairpin Bridge

“to be cursed with a brain like a bag of cats”
― Taylor Adams, Eyeshot

“Then, like a levee breaking, it all came out: “I took advantage of her. I manipulated her. I called her horrible things. I stole her car once, with a shoelace. I’d leave, for days at a time, without telling her where I’d gone or who I was out with. I must have given her ulcers. When I . . . when I left for college, we didn’t even say goodbye. I just got in my Honda and drove to Boulder. I stole a bottle of her gin from the cabinet on my way out.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit