13 Quotes by P.J. Tracy

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides.

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet.

But if you don’t talk about the people you’ve loved and lost, they just fade away.

They passed a bank thermometer that read twenty degrees, but from the cold air blowing into the car, Halloran thought that was pretty optimistic. He’d heard once that all the thermometers in Minnesota were calibrated ten degrees high, just to keep the population from moving en masse.

Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it’s there.

We all walk around with holes in our hearts. But we still walk around.

True happiness isn’t enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.

Magozzi tried to grimace away a growing headache. He wanted to curl up in a ball in the corner, but when Gino was on a fishing expedition for mermaids, you had to throw in a courtesy line.

There was a gentle swell to the land here. Not so much that you’d call it rolling – hell, when the land rolled in Minnesota, they called it a mountain range – this was more like the lazy waves on the Pacific when it was bedding down for the night.