66 Quotes by Daniel Wallace

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can’t realize what is already here, outside the car window?

So in a way it was true: as I grew, he shrank. And by this logic one day I would become a giant, and Edward would become nothing, invisible in the world. B.

Being alone was lonely, but there was an even greater loneliness sometimes when he was surrounded by a lot of other people who were constantly making demands of him. He needed a break. C.

If it seems like he’s going to die she’ll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they’re going to end. So.

My father is on the roof. This is how I remember him sometimes. Well-dressed in a dark suit and shiny, slippery shoes, he is looking left, looking right, looking as far as his eyes will travel. Then, looking down, he sees me, and just as he begins to fall he smiles, and winks. All the way down he’s looking at me–smiling, mysterious, mythic, an unknown quantity: my dad.

He was a big fish, even then.

The car is my father’s magic carpet. Not only does it get him places, but it shows him places.

What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that will mark the before and after of your life until then, the day that will change everything for both of you, the living and the dead?

The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head.