64 Quotes by Jamie Ford

Sometimes you need to feel the sadness, you need to feel everything to finally leave it behind, to have peace. Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end.

Ernest glanced about at all the faces – happy, sad, and in between – they’d become his family. He had come to love his new life. It wasn’t without ugliness, but it felt so much more true and honest, richer and more satisfying than life under Mrs. Irvine and the custodial care of the state.

As you play this record, I hope you’ll think of the good, not the bad. Of what was, not what wasn’t meant to be. Of the time we spent together, not the time we’ve spent apart. Most of all I hop you’ll think of me...

Seeing isn’t believing. Feeling is believing.

But the most surprising difference was Show Street, the topless corner of Seattle’s second world’s fair, where fairgoers could rent Polaroid cameras to snap photos of showgirls in various stages of undress.

You can’t expect children to sew their own gaping wounds without leaving a terrible scar.

We all have things we don’t talk about, Ernest thought. Even though, more often than not, those are the things that make us who we are.

Memories are narcotic, he thought. Like the array of pill bottles that sit cluttered on my nightstand. Each dose, carefully administered, use as directed. Too much and they become dangerous. Too much and they’ll stop your heart.

People relations is hard business. Hard to keep that going.