79 Quotes by A.M. Homes

How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?

Anhil's coffee was hot, dark, full-flavored, perfect chasing the equally well-turned donut: golden brown, dense without being leaden, not too sweet.

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

There’s something excruciating about this part. Strangers, or, even worse, friends, crouch at the children’s knees, touching them, hugging them, stressed faces one after another pressing into theirs, faces like caricatures. There is the awkwardness of people feeling the need to say something when there is nothing to say. Nothing.

Given the circumstances, I think the rabbi did a very good job. What did you think?”“It's my policy not to review funerals.

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.