John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

“Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Claire Marvel

“I've discovered something interesting," she said. "If you ever want to avoid somebody, this city's as small as a postage stamp. But if you ever really want to run into somebody, if you really hope and pray, it's as big as an ocean.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Claire Marvel

“The burden of being intelligent and shy and young is that you will always know, cannot not know; have grown up in a fiction of perpetual responsibility, believing that whatever cracks in life you find must be your cracks, that anything at all can be your fault.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Claire Marvel

“Break a person's heart and you become a kind of amnesiac killer. All the empathy you possess is momentarily held in abeyance while you address yourself wholeheartedly to your own emotional survival. You're just doing what you have no choice but to do. You're just living.

Then it's over, and standing amid the wreckage of your life you remember.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Claire Marvel