51 Quotes by Kathleen Rooney

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I.

I wasn’t glad that I hadn’t died. And I wasn’t sad that I hadn’t. I wasn’t anything.

Whenever “everyone” is doing something, I seek to avoid it. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do. I.

When I first came to the city, a line of people often helped me discover an exciting premiere or a big sale; in 1931, such queues more often ended at soup kitchens or collapsing banks.

Here’s some free advice: Make an honest assessment of the choices you’ve made before you look askance at somebody else’s.

Like many parents in middle age, he’s quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.