Tara

“Sometimes people reserve so much of themselves. It’s like saving a fine wine for an occasion that never materializes.’ ‘So just drink it then. On a Tuesday when the sun is shining, or when a storm cloud hovers, just drink it,’ he spoke, thinking of Sammy.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colours of the Dark

“The shrink they make me see, she taps her pencil and frowns at me. And she talks about how we construct our ideals out of our own past mistakes. And I wonder what exactly a mistake is. A thing we should not have done, right? But if learning is built on trial and error there can be no mistakes, only rungs on a ladder to someplace better.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“He would be a small scratch in the record of her life, no longer deep enough to alter the perfect rhythm.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colours of the Dark

“People say it gets easier, but that’s only because each day we get a little closer to seeing them again.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark