8 Quotes by John Burley

We belong to our past, each of us serving it in our own way, and to break the tether between that time and the present is to risk shattering ourselves in the process.

The worst kind of loneliness, I think, is to be in the presence of those you love and have them treat you like you aren't there.

[...] the reason we do not trust one another is because we do not trust ourselves. We know all too well what we are capable of.

It is not a forgotten place, but it is a place for forgetting - the crimes committed by its patients settling into the dust like the gradual deterioration of the buildings themselves.

The next morning, the earth was strewn with debris from the windstorm the night before. An audience of trees looked down on severed limbs cast about the ground, their hunched and beaten postures reminding me of a congregation of amputees gathered in the wake of a war.

The past is what imprisons us. There are some things in this world that can never be undone. But they can be faced. They can be forgiven. And if we hold on to that, then there is a chance for us. A chance that someday. . .we will be free.

The worst kind of loneliness, I think, is to be in the presence of those you love and have them treat you like you aren’t there.

People live their whole lives for someday down-the-road, and eventually there is no down-the-road left.