Tara Oliver’s Reviews > The Midnight Train > Status Update

Letting go of fear. The courage to express your feelings.

“It’s not about good or bad. It’s about what your memory tells you is representative, so at the end you get to say, SO THAT WAS WHO I WAS. That’s what you linger in. That’s where the stations are. Together they map who you are.”

“Sometimes happiness has the least to teach us….”

“Look after things. That’s my advice. Anything that comes your way. Don’t take it for granted. Love is a garden. You have to keep tending to it.”

“People go mad thinking they can change things. Sometimes things were meant to happen.”
“Everyone you meet you end up losing in some way. But if you love someone they don’t really leave. Obviously they do. But not entirely. They live in your mind. You keep them alive. You can lose everything but you can’t lose love.”

“The universe is change. If you hold on long enough, something changes. Everything changes. You’ve got to have patience. Wait it out. You’ve just got to hold on.”

“If days could be scattered all over, that would be more helpful. Monday you were forty and Tuesday you were nine and Wednesday you were eighty one. You would know the fleeting nature of things, realize how many versions of ourselves a lifetime contained.”

“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do…”

“It was a tragedy of life that you had to die before you could truly see the whole of someone.”