40 Quotes by Jonathan Lee

He would go looking for it everywhere in the years to come. Love, love, love. As if it were a coin to be found in a field, or a park. As if it could be obtained without forfeiture.

There are certain grudges that are every bit as irrational as they are uplifting. A person must protect them at all costs, especially in old age.

At a certain age we forget to be afraid of people. We start to dread, instead, their absence.

He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down.

The difference, in the end, between life and death is perhaps nothing more than movement?

He [Andrew Haswell Green] wanted to say, Don't go, but he still did not know how. To open himself up to a hard, hurtful truth again seemed the very worst of options. Some people are perhaps meant to live alone.

His family feared he might one day succumb to the catastrophe of being a poet.

We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow.

The real cruelty of dying was not the way your own obscene dreams went gray. It was the fact that you lost the chance to tell your story.