24 Quotes by Craig Davidson

You can’t hate your best friend for taking opportunities he’d been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn’t it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

I figured a woman can’t be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can’t even imagine.

Sometimes, Jake, disappeared is worse than dead. With dead, at least there’s an end.

I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

Imagine trying to hold the tail of a comet as it blazes across the heavens. It’s burning your hands, eating you up, but there’s no malice in it; a comet can’t possibly know or care about you. You will sacrifice all you are or ever will be for that comet because it suffuses every inch of your skin with a sweet itch you cannot catch, and through its grace you discover velocities you never dreamt possible.

Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectivities dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be.