79 Quotes by A.M. Homes

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better – does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

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

I’m nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They’re one of those things where you’re forced to be happy. And even if you’re totally depressed, you’re got to pretend you’re glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you’re closer to dying.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can’t do for yourself.

A lot of people get flipped out if you’re quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don’t start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that’s totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it’s scary.

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

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 think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There’s an accuracy to fiction that people don’t really talk about – an emotional accuracy.