40 Quotes by Daniel Abbott

It was never a gift; it was refuge. It was his hole. A coffin he crawled into. And now it’s like the world wants to crawl in it with him. The same world he is trying to hide from.

All these girls. If they saw the wreckage inside him they’d run.

Your life is fragile indeed when confronting your child is an act of bravery.

Give me my brother. You can keep your friends.

Love knows no grave. Real love can rise from the ashes.

But it’s like the pulse of their marriage is gone, it’s flat lined, and a “good day” is nothing more than a jolt back to life until it flat lines again.

She hasn’t aged a day, besides the sadness in her eyes.

He knows nothing of those dark roads she’s travelled, those dark deeds she’s done, the doors she’s locked her innocence in. That Joy Green is gone. Those keys are lost. Jackie loves a memory, that’s all, and what good did love ever do anybody anyway.

All the shame would be on display, the wind taking the stink of it far beyond the borders of Grand Rapids.