“It’s a hard thing,” he says. “To admit you have failed your child. You know, so many of my friends nowadays are empty-nesters, and they say that the day you realize your kids don’t need you anymore is like a punch to the gut. And I never
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“Grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away and, for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be described in that way: There were no walls, there were no music stands, there weren't even any instruments. There was no ceiling, there was no floor, we all went out to the meadow. It describes a feeling.
(Tom Waits quote)”
― Turtles All the Way Down
(Tom Waits quote)”
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic. How the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
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