51 Quotes by Bill Clegg

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

I’ve never been one to go to church, but I’ve al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.

I knew I didn’t want to be alone anymore.

The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.

Some trees love an ax, a drunk old-timer mumbled one night at the Tap, back when she still went there, and something in what he said rang true, but when she later remembered what he'd said, she disagreed and though instead that the tree gets used to the ax, which has nothing to do with love. It settles into being chipped away at, bit by bit, blade by blade, until it doesn't feel anything anymore, and then, because nothing else can happen, what's left crumbles to dust.

Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance.

Her eyes look at what is ahead but her mind scours the past, judges each choice made, relives every failure, roots out what she overlooked, took for granted, and didn’t pay attention to. The present scarcely registers.

[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

I never felt so small, so humbled, by the vastness of the universe and the fragility of life.